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Writers:
Krzysztof Kieslowski (dialogue)
Jerzy Stuhr (dialogue)
Release Date:
14 February 1980 (Netherlands) more
Plot:
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town,... more | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins more
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Man With a Movie Camera more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jerzy Stuhr | ... | Filip Mosz |
| Malgorzata Zabkowska | ... | Irka Mosz |
| Ewa Pokas | ... | Anna Wlodarczyk |
| Stefan Czyzewski | ... | Director |
| Jerzy Nowak | ... | Stanislaw Osuch |
| Tadeusz Bradecki | ... | Witek Jachowicz |
| Marek Litewka | ... | Piotrek Krawczyk |
| Boguslaw Sobczuk | ... | Kedzierski |
| Krzysztof Zanussi | ... | Himself |
| Andrzej Jurga | ... | Himself |
| Alicja Bienicewicz | ... | Jaska |
| Tadeusz Rzepka | ... | Wawrzyniec |
| Aleksandra Kisielewska | ... | Hania, secretary |
| Wlodzimierz Maciudzinski | ... | Stelmaszczyk |
| Roman Stankiewicz | ... | Czeslaw |
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Camera Buff
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117 min
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Hong Kong:IIA | UK:12 (DVD rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Sweden:11 | Finland:K-12 | Hungary:14 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M
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Referenced in Lekcja polskiego kina (2002) more
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Walc e-moll more
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Fine early Kieslowski film finds a man purchasing an 8mm camera to record the early years of his daughter's life. He ends up filming just about everything he sees and is recruited by the factory he works at to make films for them. Though the films win awards at small "factory film festivals," the man ends up running into the inevitable censorship problems. But the camera has become an addiction and the man is unable to stop, causing him to get in trouble at work and his marriage to hit the skids. "Camera Buff" ("Amator") is a film - like so many of the more daring Eastern European films of its time - about the creation of art in the midst of opposition. It is also about the costs that come with making such a choice, and the triumphs that can also result. Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi turns up in a cameo as himself at one of the camera buff's film society meetings.