My Apprenticeship
1939Second 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.
Acted in
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
Nikolai Valbert