The City of Women Badante

Documentary, Bulgaria, 2009, 70 min

Directed by Stefan Komandarev

Director of Photography - Anton Bakarski

Producer - Stefan Komandarev

Script by - Diana Ivanova

Producеr - Argo Film / ArgoFilm - Stefan Komandarev

In a city without women, men take care of their children, cook, wash and wait for money from their wives who work abroad. A social experiment is being conducted in Varshets. Many of the city's women work as "badante" or nurses for the sick and elderly in Italy. The social structure of Varshets is being transformed and the changes - some dramatic and others humorous - are everywhere: in pubs, in families, in the local brass band. And women come for the holidays once a year. Badante Women is a film about the new European realities. He tells the story of a small town in northwestern Bulgaria that has changed because of the role his women play in the growing market of services on the Old Continent.