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The First Grader is a film of genre Drama directed by Justin Chadwick released in USA on 4 september 2010 with Naomie Harris

The First Grader (2012)

The First Grader
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Released in USA 4 september 2010
Length 1h43
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical,    Romance
Rating73% 3.6950653.6950653.6950653.6950653.695065

The First Grader is a 2010 biographical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick, starring Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, and Tony Kgoroge, and based on the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan man who enrolled in elementary education at the age of 84 after the Kenyan government announced universal and free elementary education in 2003.

Synopsis

Kenya, 2003: A radio DJ announces that the Kenyan government is offering free primary school education to all. Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an 84-year-old villager, hears this and decides he wants to educate himself. Arriving at his local school, with a newspaper clipping about this change in policy, he meets Jane (Naomie Harris), the school’s principal, and expresses his desire to learn. Her colleague Alfred (Alfred Munyua), in an effort to get rid of him, tells him all pupils need two exercise books and a pencil.

Actors

Naomie Harris

(Jane Obinchu)
Vusi Kunene
Nick Reding

(Officer Johnson)
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