My Apprenticeship

1h 40m

5.7

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

Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova

Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina

Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev

Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

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

Aleksandr Timontayev

Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky

Sergei, the ship's waiter

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Grandfather Kachirin

Vyacheslav Novikov

Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Nikolai Plotnikov

Zhikaryov, icon painter

Ivan Larionovich

Sitanev, craftsman

Vladimir Maruta

Nikolai Valbert

Crew

Director, Writer

Director of Photography

Production Design

Original Music Composer