My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship

100 mins | Sept. 12, 1939

Second entry in Russian 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.

My Apprenticeship

100 mins | Sept. 12, 1939

My Apprenticeship
Second entry in Russian 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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers
Original title В людях
Directors Mark Donskoy
Writers Ilya Gruzdev, Mark Donskoy, Maxim Gorky

Cast

Aleksei Lyarsky

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina

as Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova

as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Ye. Lilina

as Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev

as Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov

as Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

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

Aleksandr Timontayev

as Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky

as Sergei, the ship's waiter

Nikolay Gorlov

as Ship's Steward

Mikhail Troyanovsky

as Grandfather Kachirin

Vasili Novikov

as Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Nikolai Plotnikov

as Zhikaryov, icon painter

N. Chugunov

as Ivan Larionovich

Ivan Chuvelyov

as Sitanev, craftsman

V. Terentyev

as Kapendiukin

Vladimir Maruta

as Mitropolsky