80 mins |
Rated
TBC
The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. Yelena fantasizes with her fiancé, Petya, about teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren, but soon finds that her dreams may not come true. Instead, she is assigned to work in a remote village in the Altai mountains of Siberia.
Shot as a silent film, years later it was released as a sound film with a soundtrack and musical background by Dmitri Shostakovich. Labelled as one of the most underrated masterpieces of Russian cinema’, this is a must-see for those hunting the rare and unusual.
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The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. Yelena fantasizes with her fiancé, Petya, about teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren, but soon finds that her dreams may not come true. Instead, she is assigned to work in a remote village in the Altai mountains of Siberia.
Shot as a silent film, years later it was released as a sound film with a soundtrack and musical background by Dmitri Shostakovich. Labelled as one of the most underrated masterpieces of Russian cinema’, this is a must-see for those hunting the rare and unusual.