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THE LESSON

UROK

By Kristina GROZEVA, Petar VALCHANOV

Drama - Completed 2014

Toronto - TIFF 2014

Contemporary World Cinema

San Sebastian FF 2014

New Directors Kutxa New Director's Award

Warsaw FF 2014

Competition 1-2 1-2 Competition Award

Tokyo IFF 2014

Competition Special Jury Prize

Thessaloniki IFF 2014

Int'l Competition Special Jury Award for Originality and Innovation, Best Screenplay

Ventana Sur 2014

European Cinema

La Orquidea Film Festival 2014

International Film Competition / Main Jury Prize for the Best Film

Thessaloniki IFF 2014

Special Jury Prize-Bronze Alexander / Best Screenplay award

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BULGARIA, GREECE
- Languages
- BULGARIAN
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Kristina GROZEVA, Petar VALCHANOV
- Writer(s)
- Kristina GROZEVA, Petar VALCHANOV
- Cast
- Margita GOSHEVA, Ivan BURNEV, Ivan SAVOV, Stefan DENOLYUBOV
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-D46D-0000-N-0000-0000-5
- EIDR
- 10.5240/A257-06EA-C458-8BE5-FC5F-0
- Producer(s)
- Magdelena ILIEVA (Abraxas Film), Kostadina STAVRIANOU (GRAAL)
- Synopsis
- Nadezhda is a high school English teacher near Sofia. Stunned by a theft report by one of her students she is determined to find the culprit and punish him. As this episode unravels at work, her personal life changes drastically. She is notified by a bailiff that the bank is about to seize her house and put it for auction due to overdue mortgage payments.
  Determined to keep her life afloat and her house she will do everything she can to get the money before it’s too late.
  Her personal and professional life will converge as she goes against all the lessons she teaches her students.