The Village Teacher (1947)

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.

Cast (13)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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)

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Aleksandr Zhukov

kulak (peasant)

Sergei Antimonov

The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)

Emma Malaya

Vladimir Maruta

Klim Voronov

Ariadna Lysak

Mashenka

Olga Chepurova

Margarita Yuryeva

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