Polish Film Festival Perth 2021 I TEDDY BEAR

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TEDDY BEAR

MIŚ

TEDDY BEAR

comedy I 1981 I Poland

SUNDAY 14/11/2021 3:45pm I 6:00pm

THE BACKLOT PERTH

Original Title: Miś

Duration: 90 min

Language: Polish with English subtitles

Director: Stanisław Bareja

Writer: Stanisław Bareja, Stanisław Tym

Cast: Stanisław Tym, Barbara Burska, Christine Paul,

Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bronisław Pawlik, Zofia

Czerwińska

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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its release, we invite you to watch on the big screen the cult classic Teddy Bear, a satire on the absurdities of communism in Poland.

Sports club manager Ryszard Ochódzki, nicknamed „Teddy Bear”, lives in Poland but most of his money sits in an English bank. This becomes a problem when, upon getting ready to travel to London, he finds several crucial pages removed from his passport. He can’t leave the country and suspects that his ex-wife Irena may be plotting to make off with his savings from the joint account. To leave for London, Ryszard will have to find someone who looks exactly like him.

STANISŁAW BAREJA

Stanisław Sylwester Bareja was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films have reached cult status in Poland. Born on the 5th of December 1929 in Warsaw. He graduated from the directing department at the Higher State School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lódź in 1954. Bareja’s first film, Husband of His Wife, told the story of a composer who marries a famous athlete. His next film was Wife for an Australian, in which a wealthy farmer returns to Poland to find his future wife - but only having a few days to find the right girl for him. With the actor and writer Stanisław Tym, Bareja made Brunet Will Call (1976), What Will You Do When You Catch Me? (1978) and Teddy Bear (1980), for which the director is best known. His last work was Zmiennicy, a TV series completed in 1986 and aired in 1987. On 21 September 2006 Bareja was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and in 2005, a street in Warsaw was named after Stanislaw Bareja.