My Universities (1940)

5.6/10 97 min Drama

Overview

My Universities 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. Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.

Cast

Nikolai Valbert

Gorky

Stepan Kayukov

Semenov

Nikolai Dorokhin

Chatunov

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikiforytch

Lev Sverdlin

The Guardian

Daniil Sagal

Pletnev

Mikhail Povolotsky

The Student

Mikhail Povolotsky

Gratchik

Vladimir Maruta

Romas

Irina Fedotova

Macha

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Professor Studentsky

Aleksandr Gruzinsky

Kuzin

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