First Trials
Первые испытания
Release: 1960-07-28
·Runtime: 174m
·★ 5.0
Drama
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....
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Belarusfilm
Cast
Natalya Kustinskaya
Vladimir Balashov
Tatyana Barysheva
Yuri Dedovich
Viktor Tarasov
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Boris Vladomirsky
Mikhail Nazvanov
Fyodor Shmakov
Boris Kudryavtsev
Ivan Shatillo
as Gleb
Eduard Izotov
Nikolay Eryomenko
Gleb Glebov
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Konstantin Adashevsky
as Governor