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My Apprenticeship

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My Apprenticeship

5.7

1h 40m

1939

Synopsis

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.

Director

Mark Donskoy

Drama

autobiography

Cast & Crew

Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Lyarsky

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina

Irina Zarubina

as Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova

Varvara Massalitinova

as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina

as Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev

Ivan Kudryavtsev

as Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov

as Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

Darya Zerkalova

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

Aleksandr Timontayev

Aleksandr Timontayev

as Smury, the cook

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