The First Teacher

Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders did not allow children to go to school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain.

• Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
• Boris DobrodeevScreenplay
• Andrei KonchalovskyScreenplay
• Chinghiz AitmatovScreenplay
• Vyacheslav OvchinnikovOriginal Music Composer

• Bolot BeyshenalievDyuyshen, the school teacher
• Natalya ArinbasarovaAltynai
• Idris NogajbayevNarmagambet
• Darkul KuyukovaKoltynay
• Kirey ZharkimbayevKartynbay
• Klara YusupzhanovaCast
• Asanbek KydyrnazarovCast
• Sovetbek DzhumadylovCast
• Iskender RyskulovCast
• Medel ManiyazovCast
• Dzhumash SydykbekovaCast
• Kaliycha RysmendievaCast