The Childhood of Maxim Gorky(1938)

Name: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Director: Mark Donskoy
Released: 1938-09-27
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Yelizaveta Alekseyeva, Aleksandr Zhukov

09/27/1938 (US)Drama1h 40m

5.8

Overview

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.

Mark Donskoy

Writer

Mark Donskoy

Director

Ilya Gruzdev

Writer

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Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Peshkov

Varvara Massalitinova

Akulina Ivanva Kashirin

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Vasili Vasilyevich Kashirin

Yelizaveta Alekseyeva

Varvara Kashirina Peshkova

Aleksandr Zhukov

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Part of the The Gorky Collection

The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes are tautly written though loose in form. In the construction of the films, it has been necessary to compress material, combine events by minor violations of chronology, and to except liberally. This is accomplished with great skill, and almost invariably the characters are presented with Gorky's sympathy and grimy clarity.