84-year-old student rose to fame via a journalist’s interview, sparking an irreparable mess.

Описание: The First Grader (2011) is a British-Kenyan co-produced biographical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick and starring Oliver Litondo. Adapted from the real experience of Kenyan elder Kimani Maruge, it focuses on educational equality and composes a life anthem about persistence and dreams.
When Kenya launched free compulsory education in 2003, 84-year-old Maruge (Oliver Litondo) resolutely walked into the primary school classroom, becoming the oldest first-grade student in the world. Having experienced the independence war, he missed the opportunity to study due to poverty in his childhood, and this regret became a lifelong obsession. Facing the principal's hesitation, classmates' doubts and external criticism, he insisted on going to school every day with a haggard body, wrote every stroke carefully with his wrinkled hands, and moved everyone with sincerity and persistence. With Maruge's study journey as the main line, the film intersperses his war memories, showing not only the redemptive power of education for individuals but also reflecting the social changes of Kenya.

Oliver Litondo restores the elder's tenacity and purity with delicate acting skills. The grassland scenery of Kenya and the daily campus life complement each other, endowing the film with both natural texture and humanistic warmth, and conveying the simple belief that "it's never too late to learn".

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