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Writers:

Krzysztof Kieslowski (dialogue)
Jerzy Stuhr (dialogue)

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Release Date:

14 February 1980 (Netherlands) more

Genre:

Drama 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

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Awards:

5 wins more

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Camera Buff
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Runtime:

117 min

Country:

Poland

Language:

Polish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIA | UK:12 (DVD rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Sweden:11 | Finland:K-12 | Hungary:14 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Kraków, Poland more

Company:

Film Polski more


Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Lekcja polskiego kina (2002) more

Soundtrack:

Walc e-moll more


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6 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Man With a Movie Camera, 25 April 2000
9/10
Author: liehtzu from Korea

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.

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