Camera Buff
1979 · Movie · 112 min
★ 7.4(188)unSUB Rating
A new parent buys a small movie camera and starts filming everyday life, only to be pulled into official duties when local leaders notice his work. As he attends film festivals and grows more ambitious, his passion brings new opportunities alongside mounting pressure at home and tough moral questions.
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Details
- Original title
- Amator
- Years
- 1979
- Release date
- 1979-11-16
- Language
- PL
- Runtime
- 112 min
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.5/10 (188 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like reflective stories about art, responsibility, and personal compromise with a political edge; Not for you if you want clear answers, fast pacing, or lighter family drama, like in A Short Film About Love.
Pros: thoughtful moral questions; political undercurrents; relatable creative drive | Cons: looser than later works; unresolved dilemmas; domestic tension heavy
Themes
- factory worker
- factory
- camera
- poland
- filmmaking
- super 8mm footage
- documentary filmmaking
- marital problem
- communist party
- thuggish boss
- party politics
- post-war poland
- +4 more
Cast & crew
Jerzy Stuhr
as Filip Mosz
Małgorzata Ząbkowska
as Irka Mosz
Ewa Pokas
as Anna Włodarczyk
- SC
Stefan Czyżewski
as Director
Jerzy Nowak
as Stanisław Osuch
Tadeusz Bradecki
as Witek Jachowicz
Marek Litewka
as Piotrek Krawczyk
Bogusław Sobczuk
as Kędzierski
Krzysztof Zanussi
as Krzysztof Zanussi
- AJ
Andrzej Jurga
as Andrzej Jurga
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski