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THE FIRST GRADER

By Justin CHADWICK

LEDAFILMS S.A. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD

Drama - Completed 2010

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Justin CHADWICK
- Writer(s)
- Ann PEACOCK
- Cast
- Naomie HARRIS, Oliver LITONDO
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-DAA7-0000-U-0000-0000-L
- EIDR
- 10.5240/6873-4581-D927-FE95-51AF-M
- Producer(s)
- Richard HARDING, Sam FEUER, David M. THOMPSON
- Synopsis
- In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied-even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six year-olds.
  The First Grader is a heart warming and inspiring tale of one man's fight for what he believes is his right in order to overcome the burdens of his past. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education. As Maruge himself said, "the power is in the pen".