THE VILLAGE TEACHER (1947)

The Village Teacher
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The Village Teacher
Drama
June 6, 1947
Russian
1h 40m
Soviet Union
Soyuzdetfilm

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

Cast & Characters

Vera Maretskaya

Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna

Pavel Olenev

Igor Petrovich, school custodian

Daniil Sagal

Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov

Rostislav Plyatt

The Secondary School Headmaster

Ivan Ryzhov

гость Букова (нет в титрах)

Natalia Sadovskaya

student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)

Aleksandr Zhukov

kulak (peasant)

Sergei Antimonov

The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)

Crew

Mark Donskoy

Director

Lev Shvarts

Original Music Composer

Sergei Urusevsky

Director of Photography

Leonid Lukov

Producer