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The First Grader

Summary: The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Release Date: June 24, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Justin Chadwick

Writer: Ann Peacock

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: BBC Films, UK Film Council, Videovision Entertainment, Sixth Sense Productions, Origin Pictures, Big Boy Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Entertainment in Motion, HBO Max, Relativity Media, Uv Rml Films, Vivendi Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 332,000

International: $ 905,457

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1950s adult education adult school africa ageism alphabet apology baby back scar barbed wire bare butt barging into a meeting beating billboard blackboard blood board of education bracelet british colonialism briton burning hut bus camera cat cell phone chaining a gate chalk chanting clapping classroom coercion colonialism cruelty crying crying baby dancer dancing death death of child death of wife demonstration detention camp dragging someone education elderly man elementary school employer employee relationship execution exercise book false accusation false accusation of adultery father daughter relationship father son relationship fight for freedom fire flash forward flashback freedom gate goat gun handshake hard of hearing hero hit with a stick hoe home invasion homecoming hung upside down husband wife relationship illiteracy imperialism insult intergenerational friendship interrogation kenyan flag kenyan government kick kikuyu kiss learning to read learning to write letter letter from president liberation limp literacy little boy little girl machete masai massacre mau mau memory microphone military uniform mob violence money mother daughter relationship mother son relationship murder murder of a child nairobi kenya newspaper number oath old man little girl relationship pencil photograph photographer planting a seed politician pregnancy prejudice president primary school prisoner prisoner of war prisoner of war camp protest race relations racism radio announcer radio news radio station raid rain reading reading aloud receptionist reference to michelle obama reference to mwalimu baruti reference to the bbc reference to the daily telegraph reference to the kenyan times reference to the los angeles times reference to the new york times revolutionary role model running school uniform schoolteacher sharpening a pencil shoe shot in the head singer singing sleeping smashing someone's skull soldier song sprayed with a hose street life subtitled scene swahili tea teacher student relationship teaching assistant telephone call telephone hangup television announcer television camera threat threatening telephone call throwing a rock toe chopped off torture tribalism tribe turkana kenya tutoring ululating underwear undressing united nations van village violence walking stick what happened to epilogue whipping year 1963

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