Andrzej Munk

Andrzej Munk

Profile info

Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday16 October 1921
Died20 September 1961 (age 39)
Place of birthKraków, małopolskie, Polska
Known credits20

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.