Full awards and nominations of The Teacher
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Drama
In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.
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28th Berlin International Film Festival 1978
- nom. Golden Bear - Best Picture
- winner Silver Bear - Outstanding Single Arhievement (Octavio Cortázar (For a first film))