The Village Teacher (1947)

Release Date: 1947-06-06
Runtime: 1h 40min
Production Company: Soyuzdetfilm
Production Country: Soviet Union
Director: Mark Donskoy

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.