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.
Director: Mark Donskoy
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Vera Maretskaya as Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna |
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Pavel Olenev as Igor Petrovich, school custodian |
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Daniil Sagal as Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov |
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Rostislav Plyatt as The Secondary School Headmaster |
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Ivan Ryzhov as гость Букова (нет в титрах) |
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Natalia Sadovskaya as student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Zhukov as kulak (peasant) |
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Sergei Antimonov as The priest, member of the committee (uncredited) |
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Emma Malaya as |
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Vladimir Maruta as Klim Voronov |
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Ariadna Lysak as Mashenka |
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Olga Chepurova as |
| Directing | Mark Donskoy | Director |
| Writing | Mariya Smirnova | Writer |
| Camera | Sergei Urusevsky | Director of Photography |
| Production | Leonid Lukov | Producer |
| Directing | Rafail Perelstein | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Original Music Composer |
| Art | David Vinitsky | Production Design |
| Art | Pyotr Pashkevich | Production Design |
| Sound | Sergey Yurtsev | Sound Director |
| Directing | Bela Fridman | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | K. Nikolayevich | Second Unit Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Kruchinina | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vladimir Yakovlev | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | A. Krylov | VFX Supervisor |
| Editing | A. Soboleva | Editor |
| Camera | Mikhail Bruyevich | Camera Operator |
| Visual Effects | L. Sazonov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Production | A. Blyum | Administration |
| Sound | Vasiliy Nebolsin | Conductor |
| Production | D. Glybovskiy | Executive Producer's Assistant |
| Production | Vladimir Chayka | Executive Producer |