Person

Andrzej Munk

Directing · 1921–1961 · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

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.

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  A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

  Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)

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  Passenger

  Director

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  Sunday Morning

  Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)

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  Con bravura

  Director

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  A Railwayman's Word

  Writer

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  Peasant Diaries

  Writer

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  The Stars Must Burn

  Writer

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  Men of the Blue Cross

  Director

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  Young Art

  Director

• Last Pictures

  Self (archive footage)

• 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 LifeCinematography
• 1951Destination - Nowa Huta!Director
• 1951Maj pracy walki pokojuDirector of Photography
• 1950Young ArtDirector
• —It Began in SpainDirector