My Apprenticeship

Story

Synopsis

Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

Director

Mark Donskoy

Writers

Ivan Ladyzhnikov, Maxim Gorky, Ilya Gruzdev

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

12 September 1939

Ensemble

Cast

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  Aleksei Lyarsky

  Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

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  Irina Zarubina

  Natalya, the washer-woman

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  Varvara Massalitinova

  Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

• Elizaveta Lilina

  Matriona Ivanovna

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  Ivan Kudryavtsev

  Sergeyev, the son-in-law

• N. Berezovskaya

  Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

• Ye. Seleznyov

  Viktor Ivanov, son

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  Darya Zerkalova

  The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")

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  Aleksandr Timontayev

  Smury, the cook

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  Mikhail Povolotsky

  Sergei, the ship's waiter

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  Nikolay Gorlov

  Ship's Steward

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  Mikhail Troyanovsky

  Grandfather Kachirin