In post-Civil War 1923, a young Red Army veteran is sent to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Kyrgyzstan to establish the first school. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders forbade children to attend school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain.
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> Andrei Konchalovsky (Director)
> Georgi Rerberg (Director of Photography)
> Yevgeni Kashkevich (Sound Director)
> S. Katsenelenbogen (Sound Director)
> A. Kirgizbaev (Assistant Director)
> I. Olshanetskiy (Assistant Director)
> Boris Travkin (VFX Director of Photography)
> V. Aristanov (First Assistant Director)
> Yu. Lyubimenko (First Assistant Director)
> Boris Dobrodeev (Screenplay)
> Andrei Konchalovsky (Screenplay)
> Chinghiz Aitmatov (Screenplay)
> Andrei Tarkovsky (Writers' Assistant)
> N. Rudakova (Script Editor)
> Chinghiz Aitmatov (Book)
