My Apprenticeship (1939)
Overview
Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Cast
Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman
Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna
Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
Mikhail Povolotsky
Sergei, the ship's waiter
Nikolay Gorlov
Ship's Steward
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Grandfather Kachirin
Vyacheslav Novikov
Uncle Yakov Kashirin
Nikolai Plotnikov
Zhikaryov, icon painter
Ivan Chuvelyov
Sitanev, craftsman
Vladimir Maruta
Mitropolsky
Nikolai Valbert
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