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The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
- DIRECTOR
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- Justin Chadwick
- WRITERS
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- Ann Peacock
- BBC Films
- STUDIOS
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- BBC Films
- UK Film Council
- Videovision Entertainment
- WEBSITE
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- WWW.THEFIRSTGRADER-THEMOVIE.COM/
Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together he and his young teacher face fierce resistance, but ultimately they win through - and also find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past.
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