Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide because of his partially Jewish ancestry. After the war he finally moved to Łódź, where he joined the Film and Theatre School. He graduated in 1951. In 1956 he finished “Człowiek na torze” (Man on the Tracks), one of the most important Polish films of the 1950s. The following year he started giving lectures at his alma mater. In 1957 he finished “Eroica”, a set of two film novels on the Polish idea of heroism and virtue.

FILMOGRAPHY
1963 Pasażerka
1960 Zezowate szczęście / Crossed Luck
1957 Eroica
1957 Con bravura
1956 Człowiek na torze / Man on the Tracks
1955 Błękitny krzyż
1955 Niedzielny poranek / Sunday Morning
1954 Gwiazdy muszą płonąć
1953 Kolejarskie słowo
1952 Bajka
1952 Pamiętniki chłopów
1951 Kierunek Nowa Huta!