Stanisław Bareja | |
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Born |
Warsaw, Poland |
5 December 1929
Died | 14 June 1987 Essen, West Germany |
(aged 57)
Occupation | Filmmaker, actor, comedian |
Stanisław Bareja (5 December 1929 – 14 June 1987) was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films (mostly comedies) have reached cult status in Poland.
His most famous film is Teddy Bear (Miś), filmed in 1980. 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 by President Lech Kaczynski and in 2005, a street in Warsaw was named after Stanislaw Bareja.