The Old Alphabet

A rural teacher, whose letters to Leo Tolstoy are read in the movie, sees the meaning of his work not just in teaching children to read and write, but in the education of human personality.

• Viktor ProkhorovDirector
• Aleksandr AleksandrovWriter
• Anton VasilyevWriter

• Vyacheslav BaranovTeacher
• Valentin SmirnitskiyCast
• Rimma MarkovaCast
• Feliksas EinasCast
• Svetlana TormakhovaCast
• Elena MikhailovaCast
• Aleksandr SaykoCast
• Anastasiya NemolyaevaCast
• Fyokla Tolstaya(as Anna Tolstaya)
• Inna ZolnikovaCast
• Mikhail Svirin(as Misha Svirin)
• Leonid Porter(as Lyonya Porter)