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1965 · 102 mins · Russian
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Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Starring
Natalya Arinbasarova, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Sovetbek Dzhumadylov, Nasreddin Dubashev, Dzhumash Sydykbekova, Baken Kydykeyeva

After leaving the Red Army, Dyuishen is sent by the Young Communist League to the remote Kyrgyz mountains of Central Asia in 1923, just after the Civil War. He becomes a teacher, spreading Leninist ideas in a Muslim community that bans schooling, and falls for a student whose father sells her to a wealthy chieftain. When the school burns, villagers fell prized poplar trees to rebuild it.

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