The Color of the Chameleon
The Color of the Chameleon

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Batko becomes a secret-police informant. He performs his duties with great zeal, and yet he is unduly dismissed. His ego is badly hurt. His experience with clandestine work makes him realize a simple fact - the system of the political police is flawed by nature. Secrecy is both, its power and weakness. The system depends on the presumed authenticity of the agents and recruitment of informants based on fear. The operations of the secret police could be imitated by rogue indivi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Color of the Chameleon:

Rousy Chanev
Irena Milyankova
Deyan Donkov
Rushi Vidinliev
Lilia Abadjieva
Mihail Bilalov

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Batko becomes a secret-police informant. He performs his duties with great zeal, and yet he is unduly dismissed. His ego is badly hurt. His experience with clandestine work makes him realize a simple fact - the system of the political police is flawed by nature. Secrecy is both, its power and weakness. The system depends on the presumed authenticity of the agents and recruitment of informants based on fear. The operations of the secret police could be imitated by rogue individuals posing as agents. Batko creates a phantom secret-police department - a back door in the matrix of political control. He becomes the spider in his own web of informants by recruiting a group of intellectuals to spy on each other. He builds his own secret archive. After the fall of communism, Batko uses it to wreak havoc on the government. This is a dark political comedy. A self-styled secret agent engineers a fake political institution that replicates and mocks the omnipotent system of the secret police. A bold political con is launched by a seemingly ridiculous man. His creation becomes a Trojan horse in the apparatus of fear, causing general chaos and making the system look like one stupendous absurdity. 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. It exposes the maniacal desire to collaborate and the pleasure of spying on others, the temptation to conform and at the same time hack the system using its own devices. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but most suggestively in its deviant pleasures.

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Eye for Film - 7/10 by Amber WilkinsonWill best reward those who are prepared to pay attention and stick with its twirls and pirouettes until the complex pay-off.
Film Comment Magazine - 6/10 by Nicolas RapoldBulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void.
Reel Film Reviews - 0/10 by David Nusair...an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions...
User Review - 8/10 by Zahari DVery good movie! Interesting and sometimes funny plot.
User Review - 2/10 by Eric GToronto International Film Festival 2012. Bulgarian movie about a spy who creates his own conspiracies to get back at a spy agency who fires him. I don't know whose fault this is; the fact that the screening was at 9:45 am in the morning (which meant that I had to Blue Night bus the way downtown), or the fact the movie was really fucking boring that I fell asleep halfway through the movie and didn't wake up until 15 minutes before it ended. It was just so boring. It was not funny - apparently it was supposed to be a comedy?! I thought that it was supposed to be a spy thriller - and there were so many complicated Bulgarian/Russian names/terms in the script, I got so confused. So in the end, at the end of the screening, I ran after the volunteer usher in the theatre just so she could catch me up on what happened in the film. I'm sure it was funny for others but from the short time I was awake watching it, not a lot of people laughed and many people were impatiently shifting in their seats.

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