director Stanisław Bareja
screenplay Stanisław Bareja, Stanisław Tym
director of photography Zdzisław Kaczmarek
music Jerzy Derfel
with Stanisław Tym, Barbara Burska, Christine Paul, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bronisław Pawlik
[SCENE FROM THE FILM]
Driver: I was passing here yesterday and those houses were not here. Militiaman: And if an old woman were crossing the road to get to the old people’s home and the house had not been there and now it was, then you would run her down and it may be your mother! Driver: How can I run down my mother if she is sitting in the back of the car? Militiaman (to headquarters): HQ, do you read me?! He said the mother is sitting in the back. Mother in the back! Officer: First of all, don’t panic. Officer2: This shows that, first, life keeps posing new challenges to us and, second, we need to have different solutions ready. I therefore propose the following: And if in the future there was a nursery school here (…) Militiaman (struggling through the thicket and practising his role): (…). And if suddenly in the future there was a nursery school here and your son was crossing over, whom you don’t have yet? So don’t tell me she’s sitting in the back!
ALEKSANDRA [AKA JULIUSZ KYDRYŃSKI], TEDDY BEAR – A CURVED MIRROR OF OUR REALITY [‘MIŚ’ – ZABAWNE ZWIERCIADŁO NASZEJ RZECZYWISTOŚCI], ‘PRZEKRÓJ’, 17 MAJA 1981
Critics are sometimes irritated with Bareja’s films but they attract large audiences. And the audience is probably right. Bareja is the only director who makes satirical films about Polish reality. And since he was joined by Stanisław Tym, his satire has become even sharper. Confrontation of everyday absurdities with abstract ideas proves that our reality beats the most surreal fiction. What more can you demand from a satirical comedy?
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