KAMÉLEON
Category: Feature Film
Director: Krisztina Goda
Country: Hungary
Year: 2008
Length: 104'
Production Status: completed
Cast:
Gabriella Hámori
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CHAMELEON
Gábor Farkas is a conman by profession. He ensnares plain-looking, lonely women with acts of love and then cheats them out of their savings. One day he becomes tired of his small-time swindles and craves a real challenge. He meets Hanna, a rich and beautiful ballerina who is trying to return to the stage after an absence from it caused by an accident. Gábor has to use every trick up his sleeve in order to make the girl take him seriously: he acquires a luxury apartment, a sports car, a medical degree and even an entire hospital to impress her. But his lies are so complicated that he gets entangled in his own ropes and in the end is no longer even sure what he wants to achieve.
Director's Statement
CHAMELEON explores the subject of compulsive lying. Those who suffer from it feel an irrepressible desire to become something more than what they are. Gábor, a bright, talented young man, was brought up in an orphanage. By lying, he invents a better past for himself in order to create a better future. He longs for a privileged life with all its luxuries: fancy clothes, good cars, expensive homes and most of all, the feeling of belonging to a different class.
Is he responsible or is society to blame? CHAMELEON is a suspenseful psychological drama that explores the intense pressure to become successful in today's society.
