In 1956 he finished "Man on the Tracks" ("Człowiek na torze"), 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. In 1960 Munk finished his third film, "Bad Luck" ("Zezowate szczęście"), a tragicomical story of a Polish everyman who always finds himself in the wrong place and in the wrong time.