The First Teacher

Year: 1965

Runtime: 102 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Drama

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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