First Trials

First Trials (1960)

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....

Director: Vladimir Korsh
Writer: Arkadiy Kuleshov

Casts

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

Crew