Archive of films Blaga's Lessons / Urotcite na Blaga
Bulgaria / Germany
2023, 114 min
Section:
Crystal Globe Competition
Year: 2023
Synopsis
Blaga is a seventy-year-old recently widowed former teacher and a woman of firm morals. When telephone scammers con her out of the money that she had saved for her husband’s grave, her moral compass slowly begins to lose its bearings… Stephan Komandarev’s past films have systematically criticized the inauspicious social situation in post-communist Bulgaria, and Blaga’s Lessons is no different. In this evocative drama featuring a masterful performance from Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, Komandarev aims his lens at the lives of today’s senior citizens – a vulnerable group whom politicians so often promise the right to a dignified life… but reality is much different.
Lenka Tyrpáková
About the director

Stephan Komandarev (1966, Sofia). Selected filmography: The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade, 2008), Judgement (Sadilishteto, 2014), Directions (Posoki, 2017), Occupation 1968 (Okupácia 1968, 2018, co-dir., doc.), Blaga’s Lessons (Urotcite na Blaga, 2023).
Contacts
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About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Crystal Globe Competition |
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Director: | Stephan Komandarev |
Screenplay: | Simeon Ventsislavov, Stephan Komandarev |
Dir. of Photography: | Vesselin Hristov |
Music: | Kalina Vasileva |
Sound: | Johannes Doberenz |
Editor: | Nina Altaparmakova |
Producer: | Stephan Komandarev, Katya Trichkova |
Production: | Argo Film |
Coproduction: | 42film |
Cast: | Eli Skorcheva, Gerasim Georgiev, Rozalia Abgarian, Ivan Barnev, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivaylo Hristov |
Sales: | Heretic Outreach |
Guests

Stephan Komandarev
Film Director

Eli Skorcheva
Actress

Eike Goreczka
Producer

Gerasim Georgiev
Actor

Christoph Kukula
Producer

Simeon Ventsislavov
Screenwriter

Veselin Hristov
Director of Photography

Nina Altaparmakova
Editor

Borimir Ilkov
Assistant Director

Ivelina Mineva
Production Designer

Bogdan Ejbekov
Production Manager

Maren Henke
Color Correction & VFX