Blaga’s Lessons (2023)

Original title

Уроците на Блага

Directed by

Stephan Komandarev

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Bulgaria, Germany

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired schoolteacher in Bulgaria grieves her husband's death and is swindled by a criminal scam while trying to pay for his gravestone. Her struggle to recover the money pushes her into increasingly difficult moral choices.

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What happens

Blaga's Lessons (Bulgarian: Уроците на Блага, romanized: Urotsite na Blaga) is a 2023 drama film directed and produced by Stephan Komandarev, who co-wrote it with Simeon Ventsislavov. The film stars Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, a retired schoolteacher in Shumen, who is grieving the recent death of her husband and falls victim to a criminal scam while trying to raise the money to pay for his gravestone. Blaga's Lessons premiered at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won the Crystal Globe for Best Film. It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. It also fetched Silver Peacock-Best Direction at the 54th International Film Festival of India. An international co-production of Bulgaria and Germany, the film is the final installment in Komandarev's trilogy on Bulgarian social issues, following Directions (2017) and Rounds (2019). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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