The First Teacher
7.4
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 Beyshenaliev
Dyuyshen, the school teacher
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Natalya Arinbasarova
Altynai
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Kartynbay
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Klara Yusupzhanova
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Andrei Konchalovsky Director · Chinghiz Aitmatov Screenplay Boris Dobrodeev Screenplay
United States release October 31, 1965 · Produced in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia · Production Kirghizfilm, Kyrgyzfilm
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Kirghizfilm
Production
Kyrgyzfilm
Production
Russia · Kyrgyzstan · Russia
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Original title
Первый учитель
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · October 31, 1965
Premiere
United States · October 31, 1965
Theatrical
Russia · August 15, 1966
Theatrical
United States
July 26, 2017 · Theatrical
Kyrgyzstan
December 26, 1965 · Theatrical
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