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
Konstantin Adashevsky
as Governor
Natalya Kustinskaya
Nikolay Eryomenko
Viktor Tarasov
Tatyana Barysheva
Boris Kudryavtsev
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Fyodor Shmakov
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Boris Vladomirsky
Mikhail Nazvanov
Vladimir Balashov
Ivan Shatillo
as Gleb
Eduard Izotov
Yuri Dedovich
Gleb Glebov