Born October 16, 1921· Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
† Died September 20, 1961
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Emerging from a Kraków Jewish family, he first attended the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, later switched to law, and ultimately completed his training at the Łódź Film and Theatre School in 1951, after which he worked as a cameraman for the Polish Film Chronicle. His directorial breakthrough arrived with Man on the Tracks (1956), a film hailed as a cornerstone of…