The Color of the Chameleon / Director: Emil Hristow

12.06.2013 10:30 Plyos / the hall "Shalyapin" Competition
The Color of the Chameleon / Director: Emil Hristow
​Bulgaria / 2012 / 111 min. / Language – Bulgarian / Color + B&W / Dolby Digital
12.06.2013 17:30 Ivanovo / the cinema "Iskra De Luxe" Competition
The Color of the Chameleon / Director: Emil Hristow
​Bulgaria / 2012 / 111 min. / Language – Bulgarian / Color + B&W / Dolby Digital

Director: Emil Hristow
Script: Vladislav Todorov
Camera: Krum Rodriguez
Design: Prolet Spasova
Music: Nikolay Madzharov
Cast: Roushy Videnliev, Rousy Chanev, Lilia Abadjieva, Mihail Bilalov, Samuel Finzi, Deyan Donkov, Irena Milionkova
Producers: Vladislav Todorov, Bouriana Zakharieva
Production: Peripeteia

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.

 

EMIL HRISTOW

Born in 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He attended the College of Photography and studied Cinematography at the Bulgarian National Theater and Film Academy. He worked as director of photography of feature films, documentaries, and music videos. “The Color of the Chameleon” is his directorial debut.

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