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Filmmaker · Poland

Andrzej Munk

Died in 1961

Andrzej Munk, born in Kraków in 1921 into a Jewish family, had to hide during the occupation and took part in the 1944 uprising. After the war, he studied architecture and then law in Warsaw, entered the Łódź film school in 1947, graduating in 1951, and worked for the Polish Newsreels as a camera operator and then as a documentary maker. He taught in Łódź from 1957 to 1961 and died on 20 September 1961 in a car accident near Łowicz, during the shooting of his next film, completed by Witold Lesiewicz.

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