Camera Buff

Camera Buff Polish Amator , meaning amateur is a 1979 Polish drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Kielowski and starring Jerzy Stuhr. The film is about a humble factory worker whose newfound hobby, amateur film, becomes an obsession, and transforms his modest and formerly contented life. Camera Buff won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980.

When they see his edited short film of the conferencecelebration, his superiors find his shot of a pigeon useless and his shots of several negotiators at a business meeting too probing. His boss suggests that Filip cut the shots of the entertainers being paid, the men going to the bathroom, and the business meeting. He allows Filip to keep the pigeons as long as the entertainers being paid is taken out. He submits the film to a festival and gains third prize, effectively second prize because the festival did not award a first prize, feeling that no work was deserving. This includes Filips work however, he is given an award as an incentive to keep filming.His responsibilities to his wife and daughter slip off his radar as his gaze fixes on Anna Wlodarczyk a young, selfdescribed amatorka who encourages Filips filmmaking, various activities he films, and the world of cinephiles. ........

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