Teddy Bear (1981 film)
| Miś (Teddy Bear) | |
|---|---|
| File:Mis cover.JPG DVD cover for Miś | |
| Directed by | Stanisław Bareja |
| Written by | Stanisław Tym Stanisław Bareja |
| Starring | Stanisław Tym Barbara Burska Christine Paul-Podlasky |
| Cinematography | Zdzisław Kaczmarek |
| Music by | Jerzy Derfel |
Release date | 1980 |
Running time | 111 minutes |
| Language | Polish |
[[Image:|thumb|right|DVD cover of Miś]] Teddy Bear is the English title of Miś, a 1980 Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja.
One of the best Polish comedies from the 1970s and 80s, 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 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 doppelganger 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.
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
See also
External links
- Teddy Bear at IMDb
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