Andrzej Munk (16 October 1921 – 20 September 1961) was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School.
Andrzej Munk was born in Kraków. Shortly before World War II (in June 1939), he graduated from his local gymnasium. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide because of his partially Jewish ancestry. Using a false nam...
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Andrzej Munk (16 October 1921 – 20 September 1961) was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School.
Andrzej Munk was born in Kraków. Shortly before World War II (in June 1939), he graduated from his local gymnasium. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide because of his partially Jewish ancestry. Using a false name, he worked as a construction worker. In 1944 Munk took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the capitulation, he managed to leave the city and return to Kraków and later Kasprowy Wierch, where he started working as a janitor at the ropeway station.
After the war, Munk returned to Warsaw and joined the reopened Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Because of poor health he left the university and later studied law at Warsaw University. Finally he moved to Łódź, where he joined the Łódź Film and Theatre School. He...
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