The First Teacher
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Asanbek Kydyrnazarov · Bolot Beyshenaliev · Darkul Kuyukova · Idris Nogajbayev · Iskender Ryskulov · Kirey Zharkimbayev · Klara Yusupzhanova · Medel Maniyazov · Natalya Arinbasarova · Sovetbek Dzhumadylov · Andrei Konchalovsky · Boris Dobrodeev · Chinghiz Aitmatov