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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Munk has received more than 64,874 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Andrzej Munk is the 534th most popular film director (up from 588th in 2019), the 597th most popular biography from Poland (up from 645th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrzej Munk ranks 534 out of 2,041. Before him are Gorō Miyazaki, Ken Annakin, Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, Ferdinand Zecca, and Alain Corneau. After him are Denys Arcand, Philip Kaufman, Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, Olivier Assayas, and Dadasaheb Phalke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Andrzej Munk ranks 165. Before him are Jair da Rosa Pinto, Ilse Aichinger, Heinz G. Konsalik, Luis García Berlanga, Dinko Šakić, and Georges Mathieu. After him are Gaston Reiff, Alex Haley, Daniel Gélin, Walter Laqueur, Silvio Gazzaniga, and Wadih El Safi. Among people deceased in 1961, Andrzej Munk ranks 65. Before him are Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Charles D. B. King, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Domenico Tardini, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Lucian Blaga. After him are Hubert Van Innis, Anton Flettner, Kjeld Abell, Charles Coburn, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, and Arnold Gesell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Munk ranks 597 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto Freundlich (1878), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), Krystyna Janda (1952), Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Leo White (1882), and Karol Lipiński (1790). After him are Zbigniew Religa (1938), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania (1318), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Wolfgang Weber (1944), and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro (1926).

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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), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), and Paweł Pawlikowski (1957). After him are Wojciech Has (1925), Rudolph Maté (1898), Boris Kaufman (1906), Max Fleischer (1883), Wanda Jakubowska (1907), and Dariusz Wolski (1956).

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