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The First Teacher

Первый учитель

1965

In 1923, an earnest young Red Army veteran is sent to a remote, tradition-bound Kyrgyz village to open its first school, where his zeal for the new Soviet order collides with entrenched custom. Andrei Konchalovsky's stark, powerful debut.

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