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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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Cast

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Eduard Izotov actor Natalya Kustinskaya actor

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Yuri Dedovich actor

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Boris Vladomirsky actor

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Nikolay Eryomenko actor

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Viktor Tarasov actor

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Mikhail Nazvanov actor

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Gleb Glebov actor

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Vladimir Balashov actor Tatyana Barysheva actor

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Fyodor Shmakov actor

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Boris Kudryavtsev actor

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Stefaniya Stanyuta actor Сергей Карнович-Валуа actor

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Aleksandr Kistov actor

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Ivan Shatillo actor

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Konstantin Adashevsky actor

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Anna Zarzhitskaya actor

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Aleksandr Ilyinsky actor

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Evgeniy Karnaukhov actor