Operation Shmenti Capelli (2011)

Those in power have their own laws. It’s impossible to stay out of the game. If you don’t get in, you’ll get involved against your will. Those in power make plans. The more influential they are, the more daring and clever their actions. A mysterious perpetrator executes a monstrous crime whose elements follow a relentless logic: hostages, ransom, gunfire and explosions. Many are killed. But when all this is over, it becomes obvious that the events have created a complex labyrinth, in which the threads leading to the truth are gradually untangled. “Operation Taradiddle” is a political satire laden with the spirit of Chaplin’s movies — comical yet simultaneously sad. It is a dynamic dark comedy showing what happened in Bulgaria in the 20 years after the fall of communism. This is a film about the new times and their sinister crimes. It tells the story of an ordinary man, an unemployed math teacher, who is accidentally involved in the big game of greed, politics and corruption. An intriguing tale about the secrets, which those in power cannot hide forever. This film’s distinctive style is sprinkled with colorful ethnic details present only in Kosturica’s movies and creating an atmosphere of absurdity characteristic of films like “Barton Fink” and “Brazil”.