Urok
The Lesson
Ein Schüler an einer kleinen bulgarischen Schule meldet einen Diebstahl.
Seine Englischlehrerin Nadezhda fühlt sich verpflichtet, den Schuldigen oder die Schuldige ausfindig zu machen. Nadezhda ist
ehrlich und arbeitet hart – Werte, die sie stets zu vermitteln versucht … Bis sie selbst eine brutale Lektion in Sachen wirtschaftlicher
Realität erteilt bekommt: Ein Gerichtsvollzieher setzt sie darüber in Kenntnis, dass ihr Haus aufgrund ausstehender Darlehensrückzahlungen
versteigert werden soll. Ab diesem Moment ist Nadezhda gezwungen, wirklich alles dafür zu tun, den Ruin abzuwenden; ein verzweifeltes
Unterfangen, bei dem sie allem zuwiderhandelt, was sie in der Schule Tag für Tag vermittelt.
Nadezhda declares that once she catches the school thief, she’ll teach him a “good lesson”. On her return home, Nadezhda is
surprised by another problem: an officer of the court threatens her with foreclosure. Her husband has missed several loan
repayments for the cargo truck he bought intending to repair it and sell it. Nadezhda scrambles for money, but to no avail.
The truck, the house, her mother’s golden tooth crowns – nothing is enough. The loan shark threatens to hurt her child if
she doesn’t find the cash. By the time she finds out who the school robber is, Nadezhda is unsure of what lesson to teach
him.
Director's Biography
Kristina Grozeva, born 1976, and Petar Valchanov, born 1982, graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts
in Sofia, Bulgaria. Together, they have directed the documentary PARABLE OF LIFE and the TV feature FORCED LANDING. THE LESSON
marks their fiction feature debut and was awarded at numerous international festivals, such as the San Sebastian International
Film Festival, the Warsaw Film Festival, and the Göteborg International Film Festival. // Films (selection): PARABLE OF LIFE
(2009, doc), JUMP (2012, short), UROK (The Lesson, 2014)
Competition Fiction 2015
Kristina Grozeva
Bulgarien / Griechenland
2014
color
105 Minuten
OmeU
Drehbuch Kristina Grozeva,
Petar Valchanov
Kamera Krum Rodriguez
Schnitt Petar Valchanov
Ton/Sounddesign
Dobromir Hristoskov, Ivan Andreev, Veselin Zografov, Tsvetelina Tsvetkova
Mit Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivanka Bratoeva, Ivan Savov, Andrea Todorova,
Stefan Denolyubov
Produzent*innen
Magdelena Ilieva (Abraxas Film), Kristina Grozeva (Abraxas Film), Petar Valchanov (Abraxas Film), Konstantina Stavrianou (Graal
Film), Rena Vougioukalou (Graal Film)
Produktion
Abraxas
Film kv. Zaharna Fabrika 21B, app. 11 1345 Sofia Bulgaria T +359 895 78 61 02 abraxasfilm@abv.bg www.abraxasfilm.com