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The First Teacher (1965)

The First Teacher (1965)

Drama
Release Date: 1965, October 31
Directors: Andrei Konchalovsky
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Kirghizfilm, Kirghizfilm, Kirghizfilm
Cast: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova, Kirey Zharkimbayev

Overview:

Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders did not allow children to go to school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain.