First Trials (1960)
Overview
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
Natalya Kustinskaya
Yuri Dedovich
Boris Vladomirsky
Nikolay Eryomenko
Viktor Tarasov
Mikhail Nazvanov
Gleb Glebov
Vladimir Balashov
Tatyana Barysheva
Fyodor Shmakov
Boris Kudryavtsev
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Ivan Shatillo
Gleb
Konstantin Adashevsky
Governor
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Aleksandr Ilyinsky
Yesyp
