Teddy Bear (Miś). Stanislaw Bareja, 1980.
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Edition screened: Best Film DVD, released 2014. Polish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 111 minutes.
Summary: Rough handling of a cat.
Details: Around the 26:00 mark, a nice cat is stuffed into a large rabbit skin and turned loose on a filming set when “Release the hare!” is called. The kitty is chased across a field by particularly huge dogs until she scrambles up a tree, barely out of the dogs reach. She is not seriously hurt, but a close-up of her face shows that she is all dinged up. Poor girl.
That being said, Miś is one heck of an excellent film. Complicated, well-written, funny, and well-acted. How ironic that we maintain a long list of “Polack jokes”, formulaic, simple-minded humor that centers around the alleged stupidity of a particular group. Eastern Europeans are hilarious and have the patience to extend a joke for two hours as it gets funnier and more esoteric. We should be asking “How many Evangelicals does it take to screw in a light bulb?”