Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship
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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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Shot by Pyotr YermolovScored by Lev Shvarts
Also known as
- Maxim Gorkis Weg ins Leben II: Unter den Menschende
- Maxim Gorkis Weg ins Leben II: Unter fremden Menschende
- Unter fremden Menschende
- Gorky 2: My Apprenticeshipen
- En gagnant mon painfr
- Fra la genteit
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15 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Aleksei Lyarsky
as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina Zarubina
as Natalya, the washer-woman
Varvara Massalitinova
as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Yelizaveta Lilina
as Matriona Ivanovna
Ivan Kudryavtsev
as Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Nadezhda 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
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