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.
Cast
Vera Maretskaya
Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna
Pavel Olenev
Igor Petrovich, school custodian
Daniil Sagal
Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov
Rostislav Plyatt
The Secondary School Headmaster
Ivan Ryzhov
гость Букова (нет в титрах)
Natalia Sadovskaya
student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)
Aleksandr Zhukov
kulak (peasant)
Sergei Antimonov
The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)
Emma Malaya
Unknown
Vladimir Maruta
Klim Voronov
Ariadna Lysak
Mashenka
Crew
Mark Donskoy
Director
Mariya Smirnova
Writer
A. Soboleva
Editor
Sergei Urusevsky
Director of Photography
Bela Fridman
First Assistant Director
Rafail Perelstein
Assistant Director
Vladimir Chayka
Executive Producer
D. Glybovskiy
Executive Producer's Assistant
Leonid Lukov
Producer
David Vinitsky
Production Design
Pyotr Pashkevich
Production Design
Mikhail Bruyevich
Camera Operator
Olga Kruchinina
Costume Design
Vladimir Yakovlev
Makeup & Hair
K. Nikolayevich
Second Unit Director
Sergey Yurtsev
Sound Director
A. Krylov
VFX Supervisor
L. Sazonov
VFX Director of Photography
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
Vasiliy Nebolsin
Conductor
A. Blyum
Administration
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