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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.
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Release Date
- June 6, 1947
- Languages
- Russian
- Director
- Production
- Production Countries
- Soviet Union
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)

Aleksandr Zhukov
kulak (peasant)

Sergei Antimonov
The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)