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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
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Bolot BeyshenalievDyuyshen, the school teacher
Natalya ArinbasarovaAltynai
Idris NogajbayevNarmagambet
Kirey ZharkimbayevKartynbay
Klara Yusupzhanova
Sovetbek DzhumadylovExplore the crew
- Director
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Screenplay
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Screenplay
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Screenplay
- Boris Dobrodeev
- Editor
- Yeva Ladyzhenskaya
- Director of Photography
- Georgi Rerberg
- Original Music Composer
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov