Drama · Soviet Union · 1947 · 1h 40m

The Village Teacher

Сельская учительница

Director

Cast

Vera Maretskaya as Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna Pavel Olenev as Igor Petrovich, school custodian Daniil Sagal as Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov Rostislav Plyatt as The Secondary School Headmaster Ivan Ryzhov as гость Букова (нет в титрах) Natalia Sadovskaya as student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)

Crew

Sergei Urusevsky — Director of Photography A. Soboleva — Editor Lev Shvarts — Original Music Composer Mariya Smirnova — Writer Leonid Lukov — Producer Vladimir Chayka — Producer

Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators

Mark Donskoy Director Sergei Urusevsky Director of Photography A. Soboleva Editor Lev Shvarts Original Music Composer Mariya Smirnova Writer Leonid Lukov Producer Vladimir Chayka Producer David Vinitsky Production Design Pyotr Pashkevich Production Design Olga Kruchinina Costume Design

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