{{Short description|Polish film director and politician}} '''Jerzy Passendorfer''' (April 8, 1923 in Wilno – February 20, 2003 in Skolimów, near Warsaw, Poland)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0664846/ ''Jerzy Passendorfer''] at the IMDb</ref> was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II,<ref>{{cite news |title=Zmarł Jerzy Passendorfer |url=http://szukaj.wyborcza.pl/archiwum/1,0,2006228.html |work=Gazeta Wyborcza |date=22 February 2003 |accessdate=14 March 2010 |archive-date=29 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229092029/http://szukaj.wyborcza.pl/Archiwum/1,0,2006228.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and member of parliament.
== Education and Career == Passendorfer graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Polish film |last=Kuszewski |first=Stanisław |page=11 |year=1978 |publisher=Interpress |oclc=6041011 }}</ref> in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national combatant" genre in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Batalistyczne superprodukcje z czasów PRL-u w Kino Polska |url=http://www.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=63593 |work=Stopklatka |date=2 March 2010 |accessdate=14 March 2010 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721063022/http://www.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=63593 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As well as many films he directed the popular TV serial ''Janosik''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Zmarł reżyser filmów wojennych i "Janosika" |url=http://film.onet.pl/0,0,656666,wiadomosci.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709031346/http://film.onet.pl/0,0,656666,wiadomosci.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 July 2012 |work=Onet |date=21 February 2003 |access-date=14 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jerzy Passendorfer |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jerzy-passendorfer-5353232.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jerzy-passendorfer-5353232.html |archive-date=2022-06-08 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |date=27 May 2003 |accessdate=10 February 2017}}</ref>
Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://orka.sejm.gov.pl/ArchAll2.nsf/2RP/469 |title=Poseł Jerzy Passendorfer |work=Archiwum Danych o Posłach |publisher=Kancelaria Sejmu |accessdate=14 March 2010 }}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''Treasure of Captain Martens'' (1957) by novel of Janusz Meissner * ''Signals'' (1959) * ''Assassination'' (1959) * ''The Return'' (1960) * ''Judgment'' (1961) by novel of Jerzy Przeździecki * ''Broken Bridge'' (1962) by novel of Roman Bratny * ''Bathed in Fire'' (1963) by novel of Wojciech Żukrowski * ''The Colors of the Fight'' (1964) by novel of Mieczysław Moczar * ''Justice Sunday'' (1965) * ''The Strong Hit'' (1966) * ''Heading to Berlin'' (1968) by novel Wojciech Żukrowski * ''The Day of the Purification'' (1969) by novel of Jerzy Przeździecki * ''The Last Days'' (1969) * ''Kill the Black Sheep'' (1971) by novel of Ryszard Kłyś * ''Janosik'' (1974) * ''Victory'' (1974) * ''Seagulls'' (1986) by novel of Stanisław Goszczurny
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0664846|name=Jerzy Passendorfer}} * [http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=11249 Jerzy Passendorfer] at the Filmpolski Database.
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