Andrzej munk biography
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Andrzej Munk
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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.
Life
Munk was born in Kraków in Jewish family. Krystyna Magdalena Munk was his elder sister.
Andrzej munk biography
Shortly before World War II (in June 1939), he graduated from a local gymnasium. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide. Using a false name, he worked as a construction worker.
In 1944 Munk took