My Universities (1940)
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
