
Person
Andrzej Munk
Directing · 1921–1961 · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Biography
Andrzej Munk (16 October 1921 – 20 September 1961) was a Polish film director, screen writer and documentalist. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-Stalinist period in the People's Republic of Poland. His feature films Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze, 1956), Eroica (Heroism, 1958), Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście, 1960), and Passenger (Pasażerka 1963), are considered classics of the Polish Film School developed in mid-1950s. He died as a result of a car crash in Kompina in a head-on collision with a truck.
Known for

Passenger
Director

Con bravura
Director

The Passenger Andrzej Munk
Self (archive footage)

Peasant Diaries
Writer
Last Pictures
Self (archive footage)

Bad Luck
Director

Men of the Blue Cross
Director

A Railwayman's Word
Writer

Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
Director

Sunday Morning
Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
Filmography
- 2025The Passenger Andrzej MunkSelf (archive footage)
- 2000Last PicturesSelf (archive footage)
- 1972Con bravuraDirector
- 1963PassengerDirector
- 1960Bad LuckDirector
- 1959Polish Film Chronicle 59/52ABDirector
- 1958EroicaDirector
- 1958A Walk in the Old City of WarsawMan in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
- 1957Man on the TracksDirector
- 1955Men of the Blue CrossDirector
- 1955Sunday MorningSleeping Passenger (uncredited)
- 1954The Stars Must BurnWriter
- 1953A Railwayman's WordWriter
- 1952A Fairy TaleDirector
- 1952Peasant DiariesWriter
- 1951Science Closer to LifeDirector
- 1951Destination - Nowa Huta!Director
- 1951Maj pracy walki pokojuDirector of Photography
- 1950Young ArtDirector
- —It Began in SpainDirector
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