Die große Pause

Big School-Break (or Big Break translit. Bolshaya Peremena, Russian: Большая перемена ) is a Soviet 1972 TV miniseries in 4 episodes. I was known in the US as The Long Recess, and it is loosely based on Georgi Sadovnikov's novel Walk towards people (Иду к людям).

Nestor Petrovich Severov, a student preparing to start his PhD in Russian history, has his ego bruised by his girl-friend, who beats him on their entrance exam. He starts working at a night school, having had his spot at a graduate program taken away by the young woman. He soon finds out that teaching adults can be very hard, especially when they aren't willing to learn.