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Teddy Bear (1981)

Original title: Miś

dir: Stanislaw Bareja

Teddy Bear is the English title of Miś, a 1980 cult Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja.
Teddy Bear, along with The Cruise (Rejs), put contemporary Polish society on the couch and subjected it to thorough examination with a fearless, acerbic and surreal sense of humor. Rysiek (Stanisław Tym, who also wrote the screenplay), the shrewd manager of a state-sponsored sports club, has to get to London before his ex-wife Irena (Barbara Burska) does in order to collect an enormous sum of money from a savings account the two used to share in happier days.
But getting out of a communist country is never easy, even for a well-connected operator like Rysiek. It seems that Irena has destroyed Rysiek's hard-won passport in order to strand him in Warsaw while she's off to London, forcing him to craft a Byzantine scheme to stop his wife, which involves tracking down his look-alike and "borrowing" his passport. Hilarity ensues as Bareja gives the audience a guided tour of the rank corruption, absurd bureaucracy, pervasive bribery and flourishing black market that pervaded socialism of the People's Republic of Poland. (Wikipedia)

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