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....
Cast
Eduard Izotov
Unknown
Natalya Kustinskaya
Unknown
Yuri Dedovich
Unknown
Boris Vladomirsky
Unknown
Nikolay Eryomenko
Unknown
Viktor Tarasov
Unknown
Mikhail Nazvanov
Unknown
Gleb Glebov
Unknown
Vladimir Balashov
Unknown
Tatyana Barysheva
Unknown
Fyodor Shmakov
Unknown
Boris Kudryavtsev
Unknown
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Unknown
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Unknown
Aleksandr Kistov
Priest Vladimir
Ivan Shatillo
Gleb
Konstantin Adashevsky
Governor
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Unknown
Aleksandr Ilyinsky
Yesyp
Evgeniy Karnaukhov
Police officer
Crew
Vladimir Korsh
Director
Maksim Luzhanin
Writer
Mikhail Berezko
Script Editor
Arkadiy Kuleshov
Screenplay
Yakub Kolas
Novel
Yevgeniya Barmina
Editor
G. Kurneva
Assistant Editor
Andrey Bulinskiy
Director of Photography
Valentin Vinogradov
First Assistant Director
G. Glebko
First Assistant Director
M. Davidovich
Second Assistant Director
Nadezhda Brilliantshikova
Assistant Director
Semyon Tulman
Executive Producer
Viktor Porshnev
Executive Producer
Vladimir Belousov
Production Design
Yuriy Bulychyov
Production Design
Anatoliy Zabolotskiy
Camera Operator
L. Sushkevich
Assistant Camera
V. Baranovskiy
Assistant Camera
Aleksandr Lozitskiy
Costume Design
Lev Yemelyanov
Makeup Artist
Konstantin Bakk
Sound Director
Vasily Dyomkin
Sound Director
Evgeniy Glebov
Original Music Composer
Veronika Dudarova
Conductor
