Camouflage takes place during an university linguistics summer school where personal and professional rivalries are unflinchingly exposed. An idealistic young teacher comes under the influence of a veteran professor whose intentions are deeply ambiguous - is he nurturing the younger man, or seeking ways to destroy him?
Krzysztof Zanussi brought an unique sensibility to Polish cinema – observant, analytical and rigorously unsentimental in portraying characters’ weaknesses and self-deception. Camouflage probes the moral fabric underlying Poland’s Communist regime, uncovering layers of corruption, disillusionment and a confused set of public values, marking it as one of Zanussi’s mostpolitically subversive works.
