The Village Teacher (1947)
Overview
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
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)
Sergei Antimonov
The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)
Emma Malaya
Vladimir Maruta
Klim Voronov
Ariadna Lysak
Mashenka
Olga Chepurova
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