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....
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Vladimir Korsh
Director
Maksim Luzhanin
Writer
Arkadiy Kuleshov
Screenplay
Yakub Kolas
Novel
Semyon Tulman
Executive Producer
Viktor Porshnev
Executive Producer
Andrey Bulinskiy
Director of Photography
Evgeniy Glebov
Original Music Composer
Yevgeniya Barmina
Editor
Aleksandr Lozitskiy
Costume Design
Vladimir Belousov
Production Design
Yuriy Bulychyov
Production Design
