My Apprenticeship
1939 · Mark Donskoy · 100 min
Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina ZarubinaNatalya, the washer-woman
Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Elizaveta LilinaMatriona Ivanovna
Ivan KudryavtsevSergeyev, the son-in-lawN. BerezovskayaIvanovna-Sergeyeva, daughterYe. SeleznyovViktor Ivanov, son
Darya ZerkalovaThe Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Aleksandr TimontayevSmury, the cook
Mikhail PovolotskySergei, the ship's waiter
Nikolay GorlovShip's Steward
Mikhail TroyanovskyGrandfather Kachirin
Vyacheslav NovikovUncle Yakov Kashirin
Nikolai PlotnikovZhikaryov, icon painterN. ChugunovIvan Larionovich
