Teddy Bear (film)

Miś (Teddy Bear)
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

Quotation from film 'Bear' advertising XXXIV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2009

Teddy Bear is the English title of Miś, a 1980 cult Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja.

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 screenplay), 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 country 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, which involves tracking down his look-alike 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 pervaded socialism of the People's Republic of Poland.

metal 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 Porkora as Włodarczyk
• Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as a militiaman
• Hanna Skarżanka

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

External links

• Teddy Bear at the Internet Movie Database