2012

The Color of the Chameleon

Director

Emil Christov

Script

Vladislav Todorov

Format

Fiction feature — Executive Producer

Countries

Bulgaria

Awards, nominations and festivals

Premiered at Toronto IFF; official selections at Thessaloniki IFF and Stockholm IFF.

A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other and, after the fall of communism, uses his secret archive to wreak havoc on the government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but most suggestively in its deviant pleasures.

Fiction