My Apprenticeship

Original title: В людях

Duration: 100 min

Release date: 1939-09-12

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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.

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В людях

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Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Lyarsky

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

as Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova

Varvara Massalitinova

as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina

Elizaveta Lilina

as Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev

Ivan Kudryavtsev

as Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

N. Berezovskaya

as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

as Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

Darya Zerkalova

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

Aleksandr Timontayev

Aleksandr Timontayev

as Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky

Mikhail Povolotsky

as Sergei, the ship's waiter

as Ship's Steward

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Mikhail Troyanovsky

as Grandfather Kachirin

Vyacheslav Novikov

Vyacheslav Novikov

as Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikolai Plotnikov

as Zhikaryov, icon painter

as Ivan Larionovich

as Sitanev, craftsman

Vladimir Maruta

Vladimir Maruta

Nikolai Valbert

Nikolai Valbert

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