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"The Old Alphabet" (Letters from a Village Teacher to Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy)", USSR, Mosfilm, 1987, color, 85 min.
pedagogical poem. According to pedagogical articles and letters of L. N. Tolstoy.
The hero of the film, without graduating from Moscow University, devotes himself to teaching peasant children. In his letters to the great writer, the village teacher shares his thoughts on public education and the problems of education. The film uses articles and letters by Leo Tolstoy on issues of pedagogy, the writer's stories for children, memories of the Yasnaya Polyana school.

The film uses motifs from Leo Tolstoy's stories for children, his pedagogical articles, letters, memories of the Yasnaya Polyana school. The rural teacher, whose letters to Leo Tolstoy are read in the Film, sees the meaning of his work not just in teaching a child to read and write, but in educating a person's personality. Vividly and figuratively, the film presents a huge mysterious world seen through the eyes of a child.