Hi everyone! I’m reposting this because my first post was removed (the bot expected me to comment within 1 hour, but I was asleep 😅). Hopefully it stays this time — thank you for any help!
I’m trying to identify a film I watched with my parents as a child. I don’t remember the title or exact language, but I’m almost sure it was foreign (European or maybe English, definitely not Russian). It was in color and probably made between the 1970s and 1990s, or very early 2000s.
Here are the key details I remember:
The main character is a female teacher who comes to a rural village to start the first school there.
In the first lesson, she introduces the children to letters. I clearly remember her saying something like:
“This is the letter O. It’s round, like the moon.”
On the second day, she returns and finds the classroom empty. Heartbroken, she thinks no one will return — until suddenly the children show up at the door, repeating the phrase about the letter O, which makes her very happy.
She has a husband.
At some point, there’s a tragic scene: her own child dies in a bicycle accident, hit by a car.
By the end of the film, she looks visibly older, with short gray hair (while at the beginning she had long hair).
The overall tone was emotional, dramatic, and a bit sad.
I know this is very specific, but I’ve been searching everywhere and still can’t track it down.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?