Pervyy uchitel: Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. With Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova. Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village.
Kyrgyzstan, the 1920s. In a remote mountain village, against the will of the local elites and in defiance of centuries-old traditions, a woman—Urkuya Salieva—is elected chair of the agricultural coop…