Andrzej Munk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrzej Munk

film director

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1921

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1961

Profession: screenwriter, cinematographer, film director

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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 (Czlowiek na torze, 1956), Eroica (Heroism, 1958), Bad Luck (Zezowate szczescie, 1960), and Passenger (Pasazerka 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.