Jerzy Passendorfer

1923 - 2003

Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Actor

Director

Writer

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 bec