Camera Buff

Camera Buff
Theatrical release poster
PolishAmator
Directed byKrzysztof Kieślowski
Written byKrzysztof Kieślowski
Produced byWielislawa Piotrowska
Starring
  • Jerzy Stuhr
  • Malgorzata Zabkowska
  • Ewa Pokas
  • Stefan Czyzewski
CinematographyJacek Petrycki
Edited byHalina Nawrocka
Music byKrzysztof Knittel
Release date
  • 16 November 1979 (1979-11-16) (Poland)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Camera Buff (Polish: Amator, lit. 'Amateur') is a 1979 Polish comedy-drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski 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.[1] Camera Buff won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival,[2] and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980.[3]

  1. ^ "Camera Buff". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  2. ^ "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
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