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100    Donskoy, Mark, |edirector.
242    The Village Teacher
245    Sel'skaia uchitel'nitsa
300    VHS (90 min.)
337    Moving image
500    Duration: 01:30:00
520    A life-long story of a romantic school teacher (Vera Maretzkaya) who left imperial St. Petersburg to teach country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people in a Siberian mining village, the young woman spent her life in the countryside and witnessed the changes a Russian village underwent from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to the aftermath of WWII.     Almost deprived of love (her lover/husband is almost always absent, either imprisoned for political crimes or fighting in the communist ranks), the woman devotes her life to her school. The figure of her lover/husband, is perhaps, the movie's major failure: he is portrayed  within the official canon of depictions of Lenin - the  same greasy,  unwinking, "hypnotizing"  eyes, lofty talk, demands of self-sacrifice from everyone, sugary treatment of his wife, etc. Notwithstanding obvious ideological underpinnings and naiveté bordering on actual untruth, the film is made interesting by supporting actor performances and by camera work (by Sergei Urusevsky of "Cranes are flying.")
542     |fCopyright by Muzei Kino
655 4  Fiction films
260    Soviet Union : |bSouizDetFilm, |c1947.
041    rus
952     |00 |10 |40 |50 |70 |8FL |990701FL |bFL |d2016-11-25 |l0 |r2016-11-25 |w2016-11-25 |yVHS
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966     |cIn the Research Room