Camera Buff (Polish: Amator, meaning "amateur") is a 1979 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski 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 Moscow International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize in 1979, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980.
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“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer’s mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”
—Denis Donoghue (b. 1928)