My Apprenticeship (1939)

My Apprenticeship (1939)

1939-09-12 100 Min. PG-13
5.9 13 votes

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 is Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Ирина Зарубина is Natalya, the washer-woman
Natalya, the washer-woman
Варвара Массалитинова is Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Ye. Lilina is Matriona Ivanovna
Matriona Ivanovna
Ivan Kudryavtsev is Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
N. Berezovskaya is Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
Ye. Seleznyov is Viktor Ivanov, son
Viktor Ivanov, son
Darya Zerkalova is The Rich Woman With Books (segment
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Aleksandr Timontayev is Smury, the cook
Smury, the cook
Mikhail Povolotsky is Sergei, the ship's waiter
Sergei, the ship's waiter
Mikhail Troyanovsky is Grandfather Kachirin
Grandfather Kachirin