Teddy Bear (1980 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	1980
Running time	111 minutes
Language	Polish

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

Teddy Bear, along with The Cruise (Rejs), was a reflection of contemporary Polish society using surreal humor to somehow get past the censorship at the time.

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 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 to strand him in Warsaw while she's off to London, forcing him to craft a Byzantine scheme which involves the production of a movie with his friend. He uses this as an opportunity to track down his look-alike "borrowing" his passport to stop his wife.

Hilarity ensues as Bareja gives the audience a guided tour of the corruption, absurd bureaucracy, pervasive bribery and flourishing black market that pervaded socialism in the People's Republic of Poland.

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