Polish Film School
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.