My Apprenticeship (1939)

Name: My Apprenticeship
Genre: Drama
Released: 1939-09-12
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Elizaveta Lilina, Ivan Kudryavtsev

Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

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Released 1939-09-12 · 100 min · Drama

Directed by Mark Donskoy

Part of The Gorky Collection

Cast

Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman
Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Elizaveta 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
Vyacheslav Novikov as Uncle Yakov Kashirin
Nikolai Plotnikov as Zhikaryov, icon painter
N. Chugunov as Ivan Larionovich