The Village Teacher

The Village Teacher (Russian: Сельская учительница, romanized: Selskaya uchitelnitsa) is a 1947 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy.

[1][2][3] The film tells the story of a teacher young Varya, who is going to teach peasant children in one village, which treats her coolly upon her arrival.

Suddenly an acquaintance and former lover of Varya, a bolshevik Martynov, arrives in town marries and Varys.

There, slowly but surely, the "city girl" wins the hearts of the locals, who are tough people engaged in gold mining.

The new government opens up new opportunities for all people, and Varvara helps her most capable student, Prov Voronov, travel to the city to continue his education at a vocational school.