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The First Grader

2010
Directed byJustin Chadwick
1h 43m

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.

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Naomie HarrisJane ObinchuTony KgorogeCharles ObinchuNick RedingOfficer Johnson
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DramaHistoryRomance
STATUSReleased
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7.1

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