Blaga's Lessons

Story

A phone scam becomes a thriller: a disturbing and gripping drama which shines a light on the catastrophic situation faced by pensioners in modern Bulgaria. Blaga is a 70-year old retired teacher with clear moral principles. When phone scammers rob her of the money she has saved up for her husband’s grave, her life changes radically. To get the money backgain, Blaga gets in touch with the criminals and begins to work for them as a courier. Previously blameless, she slips deeper and deeper into a swamp that threatens to engulf her completely.

 

 

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Director

STEPHAN KOMANDAREV (*1966 in Bulgaria) won numerous international prizes for The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008) and The Judgment (2014). In 2017, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed his film Directions.

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