Jerzy Passendorfer (April 8, 1923 in Wilno – February 20, 2003 in Skolimów, near Warsaw, Poland)[1] was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II,[2] and member of parliament.

Passendorfer graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague[3] in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s.[4] As well as many films he directed the popular TV serial Janosik.[5][6]

Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.[7]

Filmography

• Signals (1959)
• Assassination (1959)
• The Return (1960)
• Judgment (1961)
• Broken Bridge (1962)
• Bathed in Fire (1963)
• The Colors of the Fight (1964)
• Justice Sunday (1965)
• The Big Bang (1966)
• The Day of the Purification (1969)
• The Last Days (1969)
• Kill the Black Sheep (1971)
• Janosik (1974)
• Victory (1974)
• Seagulls (1986)

References

External links

• Jerzy Passendorfer at IMDb
• Jerzy Passendorfer at the Filmpolski Database.

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