Jerzy Passendorfer
Film director
1923 – 2003
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Who was Jerzy Passendorfer?
Jerzy Passendorfer 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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- Born
- Apr 8, 1923
Vilnius - Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 20, 2003
Warsaw
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on July 23, 2013
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