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	Andrzej Munk - Biography - Moviefone
		A contemporary of Andrzej Wajda, filmmaker Andrzej Munk, who may well have gained an equally international reputation had he not died in an automobile wreck in 1961, was a key figure in Polish New Wave cinema, noted for his intelligent and ironic views of life in modern Poland.
		Born in Cracow, Munk was a freedom fighter in the Polish underground during WWII.
		Munk began directing feature films in 1956 and quickly established a reputation for fearlessly taking sharp, satiric pokes at the bureaucratic Communist regime, particularly in regards to the notion of military valor.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/andrzej-munk/171340/biography (204 words)

	Harvard Film Archive September-October: Andrzej Munk
		Andrzej Munk’s tragic death at age thirty-nine might have formed the plot for one of his own darkly sardonic works: a Polish Jew and an active resistance worker during the war, he was returning home from shooting his film Passenger at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1961 when an oncoming truck struck his car.
		Munk’s cinema—often compared to the literature of his compatriot Witold Gombrowicz—showcases the ways in which ordinary people go about making sense of extraordinary times; and if sense can not be found, his films imply, then absurdity and satire should take its place.
		Munk garnered international recognition with this breakthrough film, a poignant satire on the vagaries of heroism in wartime and “the bitter irony of Polish fate.” The work is presented in two parts.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/02sepoct/munk.htm (965 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By the end of Andrzej Munk’s short life (he died in a car accident in 1961, age 39), he had become a vanguard figure for a newly vital Polish cinema.
		Munk is on the verge, in this film, of creating a work of radical irony, a questioning of Communist absolutes.
		Munk’s most famous film, Passenger (screens Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m., and next Thursday at 7 p.m.), was also his last.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02430072.htm (648 words)

	ANDRZEJ MUNK
		Andrzej Munk was born into a Jewish family in Cracow, Poland, in 1921.
		Each artist would work their memories and experiences into their work in different ways; for Munk, they would result in a kind of fl humor that pervades much of his work, a fl humor that measures the distance between the world his characters think they live in and the one in which they actually operate.
		Munk shot to international acclaim on the success of EROICA, a bitterly comic meditation on the varying notions of heroism during wartime.
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /munk.htm (1633 words)

	Andrzej Munk
		Andrzej Munk presents a clever, engaging, and insightful satire on duty, courage, and heroism in Eroica.
		From the rhythmic introductory title sequence shot from the rails of a passing train, Andrzej Munk presents an intrinsically human perspective from beneath (and subliminally crushed by) the interminable wheels of progress and industrialization.
		It is this systematic marginalization of the individual for the purported benefit of a collective that is inevitably captured in the bittersweet irony of the film, the human consequence of social revolution reduced to cynical scrutiny, needless self-sacrifice, and anonymous heroism.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/munk.html (700 words)

	Andrzej Munk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrzej Munk (October 16, 1921–September 20, 1961) was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School.
		In 1960 Munk finished his third film, "Bad Luck" (Zezowate szczęście), a tragicomical story of a Polish everyman who always finds himself in the wrong place and in the wrong time.
		Andrzej Munk died in a car accident near Łowicz on September 20, 1961, while on his way home from Auschwitz concentration camp where he was finishing his last film, "Passenger" (Pasażerka).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrzej_Munk (384 words)

	THE FILMS OF ANDRZEJ MUNK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Munk would have been eighty this past October; forty years after his death, his films and his concerns still speak to a world as tragic, war-torn, and absurd as ever.
		Munk threads a loose narrative and love-story subplot through the action, but wisely concentrates on the tools that reality offers him: the beauty and ferocity of the Tatra Mountains, and the faces of the individuals who, only years earlier, had lived the story.
		Munk further refines the documentary/fiction hybridizations of his earlier work with this Rashomon-like tale of the death of a railwayman, told in a difficult-to-forget merging of socialist realism and film noir.
	www.gazetagazeta.com /feniks/munk (1190 words)

	POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
		Andrzej Munk’s tragic death at the age of thirty-nine during the making of Passenger interrupted one of the most promising careers in the history of Polish cinema.
		Munk’s take on the heroic national story of a group of Polish mountaineers who in 1945 ferried wounded Czech partisans through German lines and into a safe haven in Poland.
		His colleagues decided to complete the film to what they believed were Munk’s intentions and, over a period of two years, assembled it using the existing footage, still photographs and a voice-over narration.
	www.polishculture.org.uk /EVENTS_2006/munk.html (458 words)

	Eroica
		In drawing his character Munk does not obscure a single negative feature; in certain sections of the story Munk consistently emphasizes aspects of character and plot that lead the protagonist to greedy calculations of profit and loss.
		Munk does not mock his hero but shows how the atmosphere of the time can influence a totally unheroic individual and impel him to act.
		In this case, too, he is not demeaning the importance of the rumor; from the outset he even ascribes to it a certain power that should help the captives in their struggle for survival.
	www.filmreference.com /Films-Dr-Ex/Eroica.html (805 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for munk
		Munk, who attacked National Socialism in He Sits by the Melting Pot (1938) and Niels Ebbesen
		The playwright Kaj Munk (1898-1944) was born there.
		Early Writings The earliest literature of Denmark is preserved in the runic carvings on nearly 275 stone monuments erected to the Vikings c.850-1050.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=munk (323 words)

	Film Comment
		Bear in mind that when Munk flung out these sarcasms, as little as a dozen years separated his audience from events that they might have preferred to recall as heroic or momentous.
		The son of an engineer, Andrzej Munk was born in Krakow in 1921 and moved to Warsaw with his family in 1940.
		Munk brought to his debut a few touches of sardonic grotesquerie ÷ only a few, but enough to hint at the films to come.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/1-2-2002/munk.htm (1834 words)

	Andrzej Munk - Moviefone
		A contemporary of Andrzej Wajda, filmmaker Andrzej Munk, who may well have gained an equally international reputation had he not died in an...
		The son of an engineer, Andrzej Munk was born in Krakow in 1921 and moved to...
		Andrzej Munk - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Andrzej Munk Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/andrzej-munk/171340/main (116 words)

	Chicago Public Radio - Worldview with Jerome McDonnell
		Munk, who first studied architecture before coming to film, worked as a cameraman and then as a director of documentaries.
		This was during the years of harshest communist censorship, the early 1950s, but Munk learned that the way to get ideas past the censors is to develop images which have double meanings.
		Munk etches the life of this man against a background of Stalinist industrialization: steam engines, burning coal furnaces, mechanics, and the relentless sweat of the industrialized worker.
	chicagopublicradio.org /programs/worldview/transcripts/20050311.asp (699 words)

	Pasazerka (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like Jean Vigo, Andrzej Munk was considered a cinematic genius who died too soon (in a car crash in 1960).
		Munk is less well known than Vigo but he is still important, especially in the development of Polish film.
		Later on though, in another flashback, we see what really happened: the woman was not the girl's protector, but a sadist who relished her position of authority and her control over the lives of the prisoners she guarded.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0054159 (456 words)

	Passenger - Andrzej Munk
		Munk was one of the guiding lights of the postwar school of Polish film that included Wajda and Kawalerowicz.
		The film is narrated by the former camp guard, which allows Munk to raise questions of guilt and responsibility in novel ways.
		The guard, Lisa, first tells her husband a sanitized version of events which portray her as someone who was trapped by having to obey orders, but did what she could to help the prisoner, Martha.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews25/passenger.htm (499 words)

	Andrzej Munk @ Filmbug UK
		In 1960 Munk finished his third film, Bad Luck (Zezowate szczescie), a tragicomical story of a Polish everyman who always finds himself in the wrong place and in the wrong time.
		Andrzej Munk died in a car accident near Lowicz on September 20, 1961, while on his way home from Auschwitz concentration camp where he was finishing his last film, Passenger (Pasazerka).
		Tell us what you think of Andrzej Munk in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/344587 (418 words)

	village voice > film > "Wry Smiles, Suspicious Glances: The Films of Andrzej Munk" at Walter Reade by Leslie Camhi
		Andrzej Munk was among the most gifted avatars of the Polish new wave, which emerged from the ashes of a country laboring under Stalinist occupation, its intellectual elite decimated and its cities in ruins.
		Though Munk died before he turned 40, this complete retrospective reveals a director with a fully formed vision, whose sense of irony and radical nonconformism belied the confines of his era.
		Munk's critique becomes more explicit in Bad Luck (1960), an absurdist parable about Jan, a spineless schmendrick who does everything wrong in his futile attempts to rise through the ranks of pre- and postwar Polish society.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0205,camhi,31865,20.html (655 words)

	TIME.com: Polish Variations -- Jan. 28, 1966 -- Page 1
		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.
		Munk started out to make a trilogy but for some reason had to pare Eroica down to the less esthetic form of a double episode.
		Munk's antihero (Edward Dziewonski) is a self-seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with an enemy Hungarian officer, learns that the fleeing Hungarians will lend men and guns to help the Polish Home Army.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,842430,00.html (644 words)

	“Why Not Have Our Own World?”: Interview with Andrzej Wajda
		Andrzej Wajda’s filmmaking trajectory is a great example of, for most time, an ability to attune his films to the changing range of frequencies accepted and expected by his audiences.
		ANDRZEJ WADJA: One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
		Andrzej Wajda paraphrasing a great Polish journalist in John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska (Eds), The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance (London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2003), p.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/andrzej_wajda.html (4736 words)

	Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
		Andrzej Wajda's films such as THE WEDDING (Wesele), THE LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE (Krajobraz po bitwie), THE MAN OF MARBLE (Czlowiek z marmuru), Krzysztof Zanussi's BEHIND THE WALL (Za sciana), ILLUMINATION (Iluminacja), Krzysztof Kieslowski's DEKALOGUE (Dekalog) were produced here.
		Andrzej Wajda (a part of French-Italian-Japanese series: other films were directed by: Francois Truffaut; Renzo Rossellini; Marcel Ophuls; Shintaro Ishihara) and one of the episodes of “The Return of Arsene Lupin” (the French TV series).
		All the projects were made under the artistic supervision of Andrzej Wajda, the older-generation filmmaker, who was the founder of “X” Film Unit.
	www.wajdaschool.pl /51 (1179 words)

	Andrzej Munk: Wry Smiles, Suspicious Glances \| MetaFilter
		Mentor to Roman Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski, his influence can be felt even in the films of a later generation of Polish filmmakers — directors like Zanussi and Kieslowski.
		Kieslowski studied, like Andrzej Munk and Wajda, at the Lodz Film School, graduating in 1969.
		Though artistically indebted to Wajda he felt closer to Munk, who also came to features after experience as a documentarist.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/47356 (345 words)

	village voice > screens > Eroica by Michael Atkinson
		The fumigation of the New Wave basement continues with Facets' DVD-ization of Andrzej Munk, the Sturges-cum-Tati satirist of Polish post-war cinema.
		A "heroic symphony" sardonically divided into two halves—the first a "scherzo," the last "lugubre"—examines first a glib, rakish opportunist ducking out of military service and buffoonishly navigating the Nazi-occupied landscape half in service of the resistance, half in a restless search for a place to hide with a girl and a bottle.
		Then Munk switches gears, to a P.O.W. camp full of stir-crazy Polish personnel, adrift in a no-exit combat of personalities and dreaming obsessively of escape only because it'd free them from each other.
	www.villagevoice.com /screens/0516,dvd3,63247,28.html (335 words)

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		Films will be examined from both a historical and an aesthetic perspective in order to present the main trends in post-war Polish cinema, for example: Socialist Realism, the Polish Film School and the Cinema of Moral Concern.
		This will lead into a discussion of the works of some of the most important Polish filmmakers (Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Roman Polanski, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieslowski and others).
		Revisionist representation of the Stalinist period in Andrzej Wajda's Man of Marble - Stalinist oppression of the individual
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/s/l/slavic/public/html/courses/pol0870 (711 words)

	Eroica \| MTV MOVIES
		This comedy-drama from director Andrzej Munk tells two stories of life in Poland during World War II.
		In "Scherzo Alla Pollaca," a man trying to worm his way out of military service goes underground,and begins working the fl market to support his family.
		Eroica was the winner of the FIPRESCI Award at the 1959 Mar Del Plata Film Festival.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/57372/moviemain.jhtml (343 words)

	Amazon.com: Bad Luck: DVD: Andrzej Munk,Bogumil Kobiela,Maria Ciesielska,Helena Dabrowska,Barbara Lass,Krystyna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Synopsis: The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950.
		Andrzej Munk - Director, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski - Writer...
		DVD > Directors > (M) > Munk, Andrzej
	www.amazon.com /Bad-Luck-Andrzej-Munk/dp/B0007TKHTS (919 words)

	Amazon.com: Eroica: DVD: Andrzej Munk,Edward Dziewonski,Barbara Polomska,Ignacy Machowski,Leon Niemczyk,Kazimierz ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starring: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska Director: Andrzej Munk Rating
		This potent fl comedy by the legendary Andrzej Munk is a bitter yet timeless commentary on the varying notions of heroism and war.
		Based on a pair of World War II stories by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, the film unfolds in two parts.
	www.amazon.com /Eroica-Andrzej-Munk/dp/B0007LBLZK (1040 words)

	Andrzej Munk
		Began his career making acclaimed documentaries and directed his first feature, "Man on the Track", in 1956.
		A pioneer of the Polish New Wave along with director Andrzej Wajda, Munk turned a quizzical, ironic eye on subjects such as military heroism ("Eroica" 1957) and Party careerism ("Bad Luck" 1960).
		He died during the filming of "The Passenger" (1961), which was completed by his friend Witold Lesiewicz.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/193186 (282 words)

	Andrzej Wajda — Infoplease.com
		1981 Cannes Film Festival - 1981 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Man of Iron, Andrzej Wajda (Poland) Special Jury Prize...
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		Poland's history viewed through Wajda's lens.(writer-director Andrzej Wajda)(Brief Article)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0851275.html (236 words)

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