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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 1961
- Works
- 3
Top works
- La passagère
- Zezowate szczęście
- Eroica
- Czlowiek na torze
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Film & TV
Directing · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
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…
Known for
- The Passenger Andrzej Munk — Self (archive footage)2025
- Last Pictures — Self (archive footage)2000
- A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw — Man in a Phone Booth (uncredited)1958
- Sunday Morning — Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)1955
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study
· 2004 · cited 9,030x
- 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,156x
- Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,509x
- Ticagrelor versus Clopidogrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
· 2009 · cited 5,903x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1921-10-16 ) 16 October 1921, Kraków , Poland
- Died
- 20 September 1961 (1961-09-20) (aged 39), near Łowicz , Poland
- Alma mater
- National Film School in Łódź
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- Andrzej Munk (1921-1961).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1921-10-16
- date of death
- 1961-09-20
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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.
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