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Camera Buff

7.5/ 10

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1979

Release Year

112 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

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Keywords

factory worker
factory
camera
poland
filmmaking
super 8mm footage
documentary filmmaking
marital problem
communist party
thuggish boss
party politics
post-war poland
student film
film festival
new father
someone with a camera

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badelf

September 19, 2022

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7/10

An early Kieslowski with all the trademarks that he refined later in life and that made him one of the greatest filmmakers ever: the politics, the moral dilemmas, the existential questions - that are, of course, not resolved. It's put together well, although his later greats are much tighter. While

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