Film
The First Teacher
1965Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
About The First Teacher
- Drama
Synopsis
In post-Civil War 1923, a young Red Army veteran is sent to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Kyrgyzstan to establish the first school. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders forbade children to attend school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain.
- Director
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Writers
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Boris Dobrodeev
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- N. Rudakova
- Original title
- Первый учитель
