Initially, Andrzej Munk transformed the screenplay into a televised drama (1960), which was rated very highly but wasn't preserved. However, encouraged by its success, Munk persuaded Zofia Posmysz to ...

Andrzej Munk Andrzej Munk (1921-1961), the Polish director and cinematographer, died tragically in an auto accident one month before turning 40. In his brief career, this talented artist made ...

Man on the Tracks is a film by Andrzej Munk. Although it was filmed before October 1956, it caught the atmosphere of the upcoming thaw. The story about an investigation behind a railway accident ...

Film Festival was early to acknowledge the art of Polish director Andrzej Munk, whose “Men of Blue Cross” won best first film in 1955, followed by the short film prize in 1958 for “A Walk in ...

The paradoxes of heroism, the enthusiasm of those first post-war years, and the poetics in the mundaneness of everyday life… Vladimir Gromov discusses the documentary legacy of renowned Polish ...

The crucial film in the retrospective of the Polish director Andrzej Munk that opens online today at Film at Lincoln Center is “Passenger,” one of the very few fiction films about Nazi death ...

Eroica, made in 1957 by Polish Director Andrzej Munk, who died in a 1961 auto crash, reaches the U.S. with a reputation as a classic. But Munk’s film stands up less well than Ozu’s under the ...

Andrzej Wajda: At first, the film based on Stawiński's script was supposed to be shot by Andrzej Munk. But he was a director who started out as a documentary maker. He had a specific way of looking at ...