My Universities
1940My 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.
Acted in
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
Mikhail Povolotsky
as 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
Aleksandr Gruzinsky
as Kuzin