First Trials
1960 · 174 min · Drama
The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father endlessly cares about the common people, and the people respond to him sincere filial gratitude. Arriving in the village, the teacher saw a different picture. The Poleshuk people are beaten down, driven, living in mud, darkness, tightly entangled in a network of prejudices and superstitions....
- Director
- Vladimir Korsh
- Writers
- Arkadiy Kuleshov, Yakub Kolas, Maksim Luzhanin
- Released
- July 28, 1960
- Language
- Russian
Cast
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