BLAGA’S LESSONS
Stephan Komandarev
Argo Film, 42film (BG, DE), fiction
BLAGA, retired teacher, falls victim to a phone scam. In order to collect the sum again, Blaga starts working for the phone scammers. The once honest woman starts sacrificing all of her principles.
BLAGA (70), a retired teacher, falls victim to a phone scam and loses the money saved for hers and her late husband’s dream grave. In order to collect the sum again, Blaga contacts the phone scammers and starts working for them. The once resilient and honest woman slowly starts sacrificing all of her principles.
STEPHAN KOMANDAREV / IMDB
STEPHAN KOMANDAREV is a Bulgarian director, producer and scriptwriter, who has a number of award-winning fiction and documentary films. He is 2011 EAVE graduate and Member of the Bulgarian Film Directors’ Association, Bulgarian Film Producers’ Association and European Film Academy.
Director’s statement:
The story of BLAGA holds a mirror up to a number of aspects of our society, such as the Bulgarian pensioners abandoned to a humiliating existence. After working their entire lives, today their life is genocide, agony and misery. Meagre pensions, no access to basic 21st century privileges such as normal food, adequate medication, medical care, and heating at home. Pensioners are also the main target and the usual victims of the obscene Bulgarian phenomenon known as phone scams. The dreams of a decent life have long since been replaced by a struggle for primitive everyday survival. This film touches upon the loneliness of the Bulgarian pensioners where most of them are separated from their children and grand-children. Their descendants are far away, searching for a living in the capital or in far-off countries. Blaga, exploring the complete moral crisis our society is caught in, is the third film in our social trilogy, following DIRECTIONS and ROUNDS.
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Total budget: 1.043.021,00 EUR
Financing in place: 1.043.021,00 EUR
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Territories available: World, with the exception of Bulgaria
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Production company profile:
ARGO FILM is a film production company based in Sofia. It was founded by Stephan Komandarev in 2001 for the production of feature and documentary film projects, aimed at the national and international markets. It produces films relying on strong characters and universal storylines, dealing with international themes that call upon common values and explore bridges between cultures.