Product Details

• Actors: Bolot Bejshenaliyev
• Directors: Andrei Konchalovsky
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen, Subtitled
• Subtitles: Russian
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Close Up
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001DYLX3K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,942 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let their children go and "sleep" at school instead of giving a hand. There is only, Altynai, an orphan, to seem fascinated by the teacher and his knowledge.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars untranslated, March 3, 2011

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R. Whitaker (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pervyj uchitel' / The First Teacher (DVD)

WE very much need English subtitles for this simply gorgeous film of the historic struggle for emancipation by peoples and their communist teacher 'saviours' in far-flung parts of the Soviet Union. The beauty of the landscape, the weather, the romance and the harsh survival, above all the beauty of the clashing cultures, and the passionate observation of all these - also has a script which is full of insight. But with no English subtitles, those of us unlucky enough not to speak Russian simple can't enjoy to the full... pity.