Camera buff (1979)

Original title: Amator

Factory worker Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a nervous new father and a doting husband when he begins filming his daughter's first days with a newly acquired 8mm movie camera. He believes, as he tells his wife, that he now has everything he ever wanted since his youth as an orphan, but when the local Communist Party boss asks him to film an upcoming jubilee celebration of his plant, his fascination with the possibilities of film begins to transform his life. (Wikipedia)

Cast:

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
Antonina Barczewska Katarzyna
Feliks Szajnert Doctor
Jolanta Brzezinska Wawrzyniec's Wife
Teresa Szmigielówna Herself
Jacek Turalik Buczek
Andrzej Warchal TV editor
Danuta Wiercinska Grazyna
Tadeusz Huk Doctor on Duty
Tadeusz Sobolewski Himself
Krzysztof Wierzbicki Uczestnik spotkania z krzysztofem zanussim

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FitFortDanga wrote about Camera buff

A surprisingly rich film, touching on a wide variety of themes. Self-discovery, familial duty, censorship, and of course passion for cinema, and the responsibility of the filmmaker. Kieslowski's most autobiographical work, and his comments on filmmaking are fresh and honest. He realizes that simply pointing a camera at something does not capture the truth, and that films can have consequences. One of the things I love about him is how he never breaks down into black and white, right and wrong.

9 stars

michuk wrote about Camera buff

I have watched this some 5y ago and didn't remember much. Much better second time. This is a movie about emerging passion that changes your life in ways you might not have been expecting it. Serious and funny at the same time. One of the best 'films about films' I've seen.

8 stars