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The Color of the Chameleon

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An ex-police informant (Ruscen Vidinliev) recruits intellectuals to spy on each other, then he keeps an archive of secrets. After the fall of communism, he uses the archive to wreak havoc on the government.

Critics Reviews

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Nicolas Rapold Film Comment Magazine 06/14/2013
Bulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void. Go to Full Review
Chris Cabin Slant Magazine 03/16/2013
2.5/4
The filmmakers are too busy being sarcastic to ever actually be beholden to the film's trippy conceptions and political paranoia they intermittently engage with in the film. Go to Full Review
Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film 09/09/2013
3.5/5
Will best reward those who are prepared to pay attention and stick with its twirls and pirouettes until the complex pay-off. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 09/20/2012
0/4
...an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions... Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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01/12/2013 Very good movie! Interesting and sometimes funny plot. See more 11/15/2012 Fjärde filmen jag såg på Stockholm Filmfestival 2012. Lockades in i biosalongen av löften om en spionhistoria full med intrigmakeri. Vad jag fick var en rörig soppa full av plumpa, underarbetade skämt staplade på varandra. Mycket besviken. Synd. See more 09/16/2012 Toronto 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. See more 09/09/2012 A mess, but an entertaining one See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An ex-police informant (Ruscen Vidinliev) recruits intellectuals to spy on each other, then he keeps an archive of secrets. After the fall of communism, he uses the archive to wreak havoc on the government.
Director
Emil Hristow
Producer
Vladislav Todorov, Bojan Mastilovic, Bouriana Zakharieva
Screenwriter
Vladislav Todorov
Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Bulgarian
Runtime
1h 51m