My Universities

My Universities

90 mins | March 27, 1940

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.

My Universities

90 mins | March 27, 1940

My Universities
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Soyuzdetfilm
Original title Мои университеты
Directors Mark Donskoy
Writers Ilya Gruzdev, Mark Donskoy, Maxim Gorky

Cast

Nikolai Valbert

as Gorky

Stepan Kayukov

as Semenov

Nikolai Dorokhin

as Chatunov

Nikolai Plotnikov

as Nikiforytch

Lev Sverdlin

as The Guardian

Daniil Sagal

as Pletnev

Mikhail Povolotsky

as The Student / Gratchik

Vladimir Maruta

as Romas

K. Zubkov

as The Beard Baker

A. Smolko

as Pacha the gipsy

V. Dancheva

as The Woman

Irina Fedotova

as Macha

Pavel Dozhdev

as Yacha

Mikhail Troyanovsky

as Professor Studentsky