Teddy Bear is the English title of Miś, a 1980 cult

Cult film

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...

 Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja.

Teddy Bear, along with The Cruise

The Cruise (film)

Rejs, known in English as The Cruise , is a Polish comedy film released in 1970, directed by Marek Piwowski who also co-wrote the screenplay with Janusz Głowacki. The score was composed by Wojciech Kilar....

(Rejs), put contemporary Polish society on the couch and subjected it to thorough examination with a fearless, acerbic and surreal sense of humor. Rysiek (Stanisław Tym

Stanislaw Tym

Stanisław Tym is a Polish artist , movie and theater director and writer. He coproduced and starred in many films of Stanisław Bareja, he gained much fame for his performance in the cult film of Marek Piwowski, Rejs...

, who also wrote the screenplay), the shrewd manager of a state-sponsored sports club, has to get to London

London

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 before his ex-wife Irena (Barbara Burska) does in order 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 in order to strand him in Warsaw while she's off to London, forcing him to craft a Byzantine scheme to stop his wife, which involves tracking down his look-alike

Look-alike

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

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

.

metal Cast

• Stanisław Tym
  Stanislaw Tym
  Stanisław Tym is a Polish artist , movie and theater director and writer. He coproduced and starred in many films of Stanisław Bareja, he gained much fame for his performance in the cult film of Marek Piwowski, Rejs...
  
   as Ryszard Ochódzki and Stanisław Paluch
• Barbara Burska as Irena Ochódzka
• Krystyna Podleska (Christine Paul-Podlasky) as Aleksandra Kozel
• Krzysztof Kowalewski
  Krzysztof Kowalewski
  Krzysztof Kowalewski is a Polish actor and comedian. He starred in the 1976 film Brunet wieczorową porą. His first wife Vivian came from Cuba. For many years he has been in a relationship with a popular Polish acctress Ewa Wisniewska. They split up after Krzysztof met an actress Agnieszka Suchora,...
  
   as Jan Hochwander
• Bronisław Pawlik as Stuwała
• Ewa Bem as herself
• Zofia Czerwińska as Irena Siwna
• Stanisław Mikulski
  Stanislaw Mikulski
  Stanisław Mikulski is a Polish theatre, television, cinema actor and was a host of the Polish game show Wheel of Fortune ....
  
   as "Captain Ryś" aka "Wujek Dobra Rada" ("Uncle Good-Advice")
• Wojciech Porkora as Włodarczyk
• Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as a militiaman
• Hanna Skarżanka

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