Teddy Bear (film)
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| Miś (Teddy Bear) | |
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 DVD cover for Miś |
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| Directed by | Stanisław Bareja |
| Written by | Stanisław Tym Stanisław Bareja |
| Starring | Stanisław Tym Barbara Burska Christine Paul-Podlasky |
| Music by | Jerzy Derfel |
| Cinematography | Zdzisław Kaczmarek |
| Release date(s) | 1980 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Language | Polish |
Teddy Bear is the English title of Miś, a 1980 Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja.
Teddy Bear, along with Rejs (The Cruise), 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 screen play), 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 state 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 that involves tracking down his doppelgänger 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 made the People's Republic of Poland such a special place.
[edit] Cast
- Stanisław Tym as Ryszard Ochódzki and Stanisław Paluch
- Barbara Burska as Irena Ochódzka
- Krystyna Podleska (Christine Paul-Podlasky) as Aleksandra Kozel
- Krzysztof Kowalewski as Jan Hochwander
- Bronisław Pawlik as Stuwała
- Ewa Bem as herself
- Zofia Czerwińska as Irena Siwna
- Stanisław Mikulski as "Captain Ryś" aka "Wujek Dobra Rada" ("Uncle good advice")
- Wojciech Pokora as Włodarczyk
- Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as a militiaman
- Hanna Skarżanka
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| Films by Stanisław Bareja |  |
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| Scripts | |
| Alternatywy 4 • Zmiennicy • Miś • Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz? • Brunet wieczorową porą • Nie ma róży bez ognia • Poszukiwany poszukiwana • Przygoda z piosenką • Barbara i Jan • Mąż swojej żony • | |
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| Zmiennicy • Alternatywy 4 • Miś • Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz? • Brunet wieczorową porą • Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek • Nie ma róży bez ognia • Poszukiwany poszukiwana • Przygoda z piosenką • Małżeństwo z rozsądku • Kapitan Sowa na tropie • Żona dla Australijczyka • Dotknięcie nocy • Mąż swojej żony | |
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