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About
The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father endlessly cares about the common people, and the people respond to him sincere filial gratitude. Arriving in the village, the teacher saw a different picture. The Poleshuk people are beaten down, driven, living in mud, darkness, tightly entangled in a network of prejudices and superstitions....
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Belarusfilm
Original Title
Первые испытания
Original Language
Russian
Cast
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Eduard Izotov
N
Natalya Kustinskaya
Y
Yuri Dedovich
B
Boris Vladomirsky
N
Nikolay Eryomenko
V
Viktor Tarasov
M
Mikhail Nazvanov
G
Gleb Glebov
V
Vladimir Balashov
T
Tatyana Barysheva
F
Fyodor Shmakov
B
Boris Kudryavtsev
S
Stefaniya Stanyuta
S
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
A
Aleksandr Kistov
Priest Vladimir
I
Ivan Shatillo
Gleb
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Konstantin Adashevsky
Governor
A
Anna Zarzhitskaya
A
Aleksandr Ilyinsky
Yesyp
E
Evgeniy Karnaukhov
Police officer
