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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.
Andrzej Munk (ur. 16 października 1921 w Krakowie, zm. 20 września 1961 w Łowiczu) – polski reżyser filmowy, w latach 1957–1961 wykładowca w Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Filmowej w Łodzi, jeden z przedstawicieli nurtu zwanego polską szkołą filmową, kawaler Orderu Odrodzenia Polski .
Having played an unquestionably important role in Polish documentary filmmaking, Andrzej Munk the director of Eroica, Bad Luckand the unfinished Passenger, films which have entered the canons of Polish classics, next to Andrzej Wajda, was the main author of the restoration-oriented trend in Polish cinema dubbed the ‘Polish school’.
Vladimir Gromov discusses the documentary legacy of renowned Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk. The paradoxes of heroism, the enthusiasm of those first post-war years, and the poetics in the mundaneness of everyday life…
Andrzej Munk was born on 16 October 1920 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He was a director and writer, known for Passenger (1963), Eroica (1958) and Man on the Tracks (1957). He died on 20 September 1961 in Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland.
The tragi-comedy Bad Luck ( Zezowate szczęście, 1960) plants its feet squarely on this individualistic ground: it is the story told in first-person flashback of the unprepossessing Jan Piszczyk, who recounts the story of the “bad luck” that has always dogged his life.
Andrzej Munk’s tragic death at age thirty-nine might have formed the plot for one of his own darkly sardonic works: a Polish Jew and an active resistance worker during the war, he was returning home from shooting his film Passenger at the Auschwitz ...
