Completed - BULGARIAN - Black comedy, Drama - 107 minutes
The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers.
Year of production : 2012 Director(s) : Emil CHRISTOV Writer(s) : Vladislav TODOROV Cast : Rushi VIDINLIEV, Irena MILYANKOVA, Russi CHANEV, Samuel FINTZI, Yordanka YOVEVA, Deyan DONKOV Producer(s) : Bouriana ZAKHARIEVA (Peripeteia), Vladislav TODOROV (Peripeteia)
A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other. After the fall of communism he 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.
Country(ies) : BULGARIA Financing plan : In co-production with Bulgarian National Television, Nu Boyana Film Studio Start of shooting : August 2011