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Actor: Ewa Pokas, Jerzy Nowak, Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Stefan CzyzewskiCinematographer: Andrzej Archacki
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Buchowicz
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Jachowicz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Polish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Studio: New Yorker Films
Movie Reviews of Camera Buff
Movie Review: A successful and promising filmmaker trapped by the crude reality!
Summary: 5 Stars
We are in 1979 in Poland, one of the most conflictive and rebel bastions of the countries behind the curtain of iron. Wajda has dazzled the world with his brutal film The man of marble" in 1976. The airs of the imminent turmoil resound and get close. The initial seeds sown by Andrezj Wajda (Ashes and diamonds) began to show its fruits, Zanussi and Kieslowski were deeply convinced filmmakers respect a change had to come in this always troubled and valorous country.
In this devastating political satire from Poland, Jerzy Stuhr plays Filip, an insignificant and shy factory worker who, after the birth of his first child, buys an 8mm movie camera to record his daughter's first few years on film. But it happens that before long, Filip is happily obsessed with his new hobby, and he graduates from simply capturing his daughter's activities to photographing practically the quotidian reality around him. Soon, his movie mania attracts the attentions of his boss, who gives him a new task: making films that will give outsiders a clearer picture of how things work at their factory. However, Filip's ceaseless photography begins to drive his wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) crazy who really feels herself ignored due this new techno-intruder; she threatens to leave him, while his boss is not at all happy with Filip's films. Despite they're quite good, earning television broadcast time and winning awards, their messages don't conform with his party's political and economic agenda, and Filip is warned to soften the tone of his work or he'll lose his job.
So, in this state of things you would agree with this famous statement "You can't always get what you want", on one hand his wife doesn't internalise the prize of the success and the enormous possibilities before her and a future that may be enhanced; a bureaucrat boss who only thinks according the laws of an oppressive system where to watch over the appearances is much more important than to dare the real state of things . Eventually Filip will the best he can inviting to Zanussi one of the most daredevil filmmakers in that obscure decade of the seventies to express himself respect the creative freedom.
It's useless to say the movie goes far beyond, showing the horrid and petrifying existence regarded as a normal way of life. This dark comedy from director Krzysztof Kieslowski was released in the United States under the title Camera Buff.
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