Jerzy Passendorfer
Known for Directing
Details
Birthday: April 08, 1923
Deathday: February 20, 2003
Place of birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Biography
Jerzy Passendorfer (April 8, 1923 in Wilno – February 20, 2003 in Skolimów, near Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II,and member of parliament.
Passendorfer graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s. As well as many films he directed the popular TV serial Janosik.
Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.
Actor
1967
1955
Director
1975
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Writer
1975