FILM DIRECTOR

Andrzej Munk

1921 - 1961

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrzej Munk is the 678th most popular film director (down from 534th in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 597th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrzej Munk ranks 678 out of 2,041. Before him are Erik Balling, Jim Sheridan, Georges Franju, Hamo Beknazarian, João César Monteiro, and Andrew Marton. After him are Cary Joji Fukunaga, Christopher Doyle, Karl Freund, Fedor Ozep, Vilgot Sjöman, and David Silverman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Andrzej Munk ranks 215. Before him are Viktor Chukarin, Antonio María Javierre Ortas, Hélène Berr, Henri Colpi, Rashid Karami, and Max Noether. After him are Lis Hartel, Blaže Koneski, Søren Kam, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, and Gunnar Eriksson. Among people deceased in 1961, Andrzej Munk ranks 98. Before him are Hari Singh, Chico Marx, Maurice Tourneur, Louis Rwagasore, Max Weber, and Cuno Amiet. After him are H.D., Walter Bedell Smith, Harriet Bosse, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alexander Goldenweiser, and Maneca.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Munk ranks 752 out of 1,694. Before him are Robert Gadocha (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Alina Szapocznikow (1926), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Jankel Adler (1895), and Hermann Rauschning (1887). After him are Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Dorothea of Montau (1347), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Carl Schuricht (1880), and Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Andrzej Munk ranks 16. Before him are Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932). After him are Wojciech Has (1925), Max Fleischer (1883), Rudolph Maté (1898), Boris Kaufman (1906), Piotr Szulkin (1950), and Wanda Jakubowska (1907).

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