The Lesson (2014 Bulgarian film)

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The Lesson
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  • Kristina Grozeva
  • Petar Valchanov
Produced by Magdelena Ilieva
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  • Kristina Grozeva
  • Petar Valchanov
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Cinematography Krum Rodriguez
Edited by Peter Valchanov
Production
companies
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  • Abraxas Film
  • Graal Films
  • Little Wing Productions
  • Screening Emotions
Distributed by Film Movement (US)
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  • 4 September 2014 (2014-09-04) (TIFF)
Running time
 111 minutes[1]
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  • Bulgaria
  • Greece
Language Bulgarian
Box office $13,953[2]

The Lesson (Bulgarian: Urok) is a 2014 Bulgarian-Greek drama film written and directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Plot

A middle-school teacher (Gosheva) with a young daughter has several stresses in her life: one of her students is a petty thief, her father has taken up with a much younger woman after his wife died, and her husband is an unemployed drunkard who has wasted her earnings, supposedly trying to fix a broken-down camper rather than making the mortgage payments on their home. It has all become too much, as the bank is uncooperative, dismissive, and rigid regarding her situation, so she resorts to drastic measures to save her home from foreclosure.

Cast

  • Margita Gosheva
  • Ivan Barnev
  • Ivanka Bratoeva
  • Stefan Denolyubov
  • Ivan Savov
  • Andreya Todorova
  • Poli Angelova as The Secretary

Release

The Lesson premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 4 September 2014 and proceeded to make its rounds at different film festivals for another year.

Critical reception

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 84% rating based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10.[4] Metacritic reports a 68 out of 100 rating based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

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