Mysuru: Poland movie ‘Camera Buff,’ directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, will be screened at Kalamandira today (May 25) at 6 pm, as part of Cinema Samaya, organised under the aegis of the Department of Information and Public Relation, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy and Mysore Film Society.
Prior to the movie, a documentary produced by Dept. of Information and Public Relation will be screened at 5.30 pm.
About the movie: Camera Buff (Polish: Amator, meaning “amateur”) is a 1979 Polish drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski 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.
Camera Buff won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980.
This post was published on May 25, 2017 6:36 pm