Movie: My Apprenticeship

Top 10 Billed Cast

Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina
Ирина Зарубина

Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova
Варвара Массалитинова

Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina
Ye. Lilina

Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev
Иван Кудрявцев

Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya
N. Berezovskaya

Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov
Ye. Seleznyov

Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova
Дарья Зеркалова

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

Aleksandr Timontayev
Александр Тимонтаев

Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky
Mikhail Povolotsky

Sergei, the ship's waiter

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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.

  • Release Date

    1939-09-12

  • Average

    5.7

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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    Pусский
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