The First Teacher
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| Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
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Andrei Konchalovsky Chingiz Aitmatov Boris Dobrodeev |
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Bolot Beyshenaliyev Natalya Arinbasarova |
| Music by | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov |
| Cinematography | Georgy Rerberg |
| Edited by | Eva Ladyzhenskaya |
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102 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The First Teacher (Russian: Первый учитель, translit. Pervyy uchitel) is a 1965 drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It is his first full-length work, made after book by Chingiz Aitmatov.
The action takes place in the years from 1924 all the way to the early 1950s in the Kukureu village of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, which is now Kyrgyzstan.
The Russian Civil War ended not so long ago. Young Komsomol member and a former Red Army soldier Dyuyshen comes to the village as the new teacher of the village. His enthusiasm to bring new ideas immediately faces a centuries-old tradition of life in Central Asia. The former soldier tries to improve literacy to this far Moslem area while villagers didn't allow gỉrls to attend school. He then met Altynai, a 15-year-old illiterate girl who has a burning desire to study , but her aunt sells her to a powerful and wealthy chieftain. Then school is burned down and is rebuilt using centuries old trees, being a pride to the local population.
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