Rent Camera Buff (1979)
4.0 of 5 from 88 ratings
1h 46min
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- Synopsis:
Filip (Jerzy Stuhr), a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commision him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations. When the result wins a prize at an amateur film festival, Filip, encouraged by his success, becomes consumed by his new found passion. But, as he develops his creative skills, Filip soon discovers that his devotion to making films has unexpected consequences as tensions arise in his marriage, his managers impose censorship upon him and his films inadvertently lead to the sacking of a colleague. Featuring a superb performance from Jerzy Stuhr, 'Camera Buff' is a compelling exploration of the power and responsibility of the filmmaker. - Actors:
- Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak, Tadeusz Bradecki, Marek Litewka, Boguslaw Sobczuk, Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Jurga, Alicja Bienicewicz, Tadeusz Rzepka, Aleksandra Kisielewska, Wlodzimierz Maciudzinski, Roman Stankiewicz, Antonina Barczewska, Feliks Szajnert, Jolanta Brzezinska, Teresa Szmigielówna, Jacek Turalik
- Directors:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Producers:
- Wielislawa Piotrowska
- Writers:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr
- Aka:
- Amator
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- A History of Films about Film: Part 2, New waves of Polish Cinema, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1979, What to watch by country
- Countries:
- Poland
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/04/2020
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- Polish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary on 'Camera Buff' by critic Annette Insdorf
- Moral and Martial Anxieties, a brand new discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980's
- Brand new introductions by scholar and critic Micha Oleszczyk
- Micha Oleszczyk looks through archive materials
- Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieska Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Slawomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grazyna Szapoloska, sound designer Michal Zarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kie lowski collaborator Irena Strazakowska
- Three short films by Kie lowski: Talking Heads (1980), Concert of Requests (1995) and The Office (1995)
- Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Lonzinski
