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Home/People/Jerzy Passendorfer
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Born
Apr 8, 1923Died: Feb 20, 2003
Lived 79 years
Place of Birth
Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

5
Movies
2
TV Shows
21
Directed
Also Known As
Ежи Пассендорфер
IMDb Profile

Jerzy Passendorfer

Directing

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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More Than Life At Stake Part Three

as Bartender ("Double Nelson") (uncredited)
1969
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Big Beat

as Film Director (uncredited)
1967
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What Will My Wife Say to This?

Cast
1958
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Career

as Hulewicz's Assistant (uncredited)
1955
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The Others Will Follow

as Secret University Student (uncredited)
1949