In post-Civil War 1923, a young Red Army veteran is sent to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Kyrgyzstan to establish the first school. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders forbade children to attend school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain.
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- Bolot BeyshenalievDyuyshen, the school teacher
- Natalya ArinbasarovaAltynai
- Idris NogajbayevNarmagambet
- Darkul KuyukovaKoltynay
- Kirey ZharkimbayevKartynbay
- Klara Yusupzhanova
- Asanbek Kydyrnazarov
- Sovetbek Dzhumadylov
- Iskender Ryskulov
- Medel Maniyazov
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- Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- Chinghiz AitmatovScreenplay
- Andrei KonchalovskyScreenplay
- Boris DobrodeevScreenplay
- Georgi RerbergDirector of Photography
- Vyacheslav OvchinnikovOriginal Music Composer
- Yeva LadyzhenskayaEditor
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