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First Trials (1960)

First Trials (1960)

Drama
Release Date: 1960, July 28
Directors: Vladimir Korsh
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Belarusfilm
Cast: Konstantin Adashevsky, Evgeniy Karnaukhov, Ivan Shatillo, Aleksandr Kistov, Aleksandr Ilyinsky

Overview:

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....