Blaga is a 70-year-old widow who becomes a victim of a phone scam. She loses all her savings that were supposed to be used on her late husband’s grave. Blaga sees a solution to her problems when she gets an alluring, yet suspicious, job offer. This work, however, will test Blaga’s values as she slowly and surely transforms into the scammer herself.
Winner of the Crystal Globe for best film, the Prize of the Ecumenial Jury, and the best actress award for Eli Skorcheva at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Blaga’s Lessons
2023
16 years
114 min.
Fiction
Bulgaria, Germany
Bulgaria, Germany, crime, awarded films, international festivals
Colorido
Stephan Komandarev
Simeon Ventsislavov, Stephan Komandarev
Vesselin Hristov
Nina Altaparmakova
Eli Skorcheva, Gerasim Georgiev, Rozalia Abgarian, Ivan Barnev, Stefan Denolyubov, Ivaylo Hristov
Stephan Komandarev, Katya Trichkova
Argo Film
Kalina Vasileva
Heretic
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