The Village Teacher

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.

• Mark DonskoyDirector
• Mariya SmirnovaWriter
• Lev ShvartsOriginal Music Composer

• Vera MaretskayaVarvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna
• Pavel OlenevIgor Petrovich, school custodian
• Daniil SagalSergei Dmitriyevich Martinov
• Rostislav PlyattThe Secondary School Headmaster
• Ivan Ryzhovгость Букова (нет в титрах)
• Natalia Sadovskayastudent of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)
• Aleksandr Zhukovkulak (peasant)
• Sergei AntimonovThe priest, member of the committee (uncredited)
• Emma MalayaCast
• Vladimir MarutaKlim Voronov
• Ariadna LysakMashenka
• Olga ChepurovaCast