Blaga's Lessons

A personal look

"Stephan Komandarev's latest merges spiraling tragedy with perilously dark farce."

VARIETY
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Stefan Komandarev
  • Bulgaria, Germany 2023
  • 114 minutes
  • Bulgarian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

When Blaga - a retired, recently widowed teacher - falls prey to a phone scam, she's left robbed of her life savings and without any money for her late husband's grave. Her life turns upside down when she realizes that there's no way of gaining her money back, up until she receives an alluring, yet suspicious offer for work.

Filmmaker Stephan Komandarev presents the last installment in a trilogy of social injustice that began with Directions (Haifa IFF 2017) and Rounds. Komandarev presents a gripping drama anchored by a magnificent performance by Eli Skorcheva.

Filmography: Rounds (2019), Directions (2017), The Judgment (2014), The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008).

2.10 Screening in the presence of the director

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  • Director Stefan Komandarev
  • Production Stephan Komandarev, Katya Trichkova
  • Script Simeon Ventsislavov, Stephan Komandarev
  • Cinematography Vesselin Hristov
  • Editing Nina Altaparmakova
  • Music Kalina Vasileva
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary (Best Film Award, Best Actress Award)
  • Actors Eli Skorcheva, Gerasim Georgiev, Rozalia Abgarian, Ivan Barnev, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivaylo Hristov
  • Source Heretic