IFFI 2023: 'Bulgarian pensioners are the biggest victims of transition from 1989's totalitarian system to market economy today': Stephan Komandarev

Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev, whose film Blaga's Lessons screened at the 54th International Film Festival of India, in Goa, this week, and will be his third film to go to the Oscars, talks about casting 1980s Bulgarian star Eli Skorcheva, phone scams on the elderly and finding no bigger scriptwriter than life.

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