Month of Bulgarian culture: Film screening of “Blaga’s Lessons” by Stephan Komandarev

Wednesday, 08 May 2024; 7:00 p.m.; Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographical Society

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Opening of the Month of Bulgarian Culture organized by the Bulgarian Cultural Institute London.

BCI London is pleased to invite you to the screening of the film “Blaga’s Lessons” by Stephan Komandarev, the Bulgarian nominee for this year’s Oscars.

Special guests: Stephan Komandarev, director and Eli Skorcheva, actress

“BLAGA’S LESSONS”
Bulgaria-Germany, 2023, 114′, color, movie
Language: Bulgarian
Subtitles: English
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Script: Simeon Ventsislavov, Stephan Komandarev
Camera: Vesselin Hristov
Music: Kalina Vasileva
Cast: Eli Skorcheva, Gerasim Georgiev, Rozalia Abgarian, Ivan Barnev, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivaylo Hristov
Producers: Stephan Komandarev, Katya Trichkova
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 bearing.
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.