Andrzej Munk

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.

Directed

1. Passenger (1963) — Director
2. Bad Luck (1960) — Director
3. Eroica (1958) — Director
4. Man on the Tracks (1957) — Director
5. A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw (1958) — Director
6. Men of the Blue Cross (1955) — Director
7. Sunday Morning (1955) — Director
8. A Railwayman's Word (1953) — Director
9. Destination - Nowa Huta! (1951) — Director
10. The Stars Must Burn (1954) — Director
11. A Fairy Tale (1952) — Director
12. Peasant Diaries (1952) — Director
13. Science Closer to Life (1951) — Director
14. It Began in Spain — Director
15. Young Art (1950) — Director
16. Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB (1959) — Director
17. Con bravura (1972) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw (1958) — Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)
2. Sunday Morning (1955) — Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
3. Last Pictures (2000) — Self (archive footage)
4. The Passenger Andrzej Munk (2025) — Self (archive footage)