Director

Jerzy Passendorfer

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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 1All crew credits: 24

TMDB ID: 591479

IMDb ID: nm0664846

Known for: Directing

Born: April 8, 1923

Died: February 20, 2003

Age: 79

Place of birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1949 - 1986

Years active: 38

Wikidata: Q1688003

Also known as

Ежи Пассендорфер

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Director (16)First Assistant Director (3)Supervising Art Director (2)Assistant Director (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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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.

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