My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship(1939)

09/12/1939 (US)Drama1h 40m

5.7

Overview

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.

Mark Donskoy

Director

Ilya Gruzdev

Writer

Mark Donskoy

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina

Irina Zarubina

Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova

Varvara Massalitinova

Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina

Elizaveta Lilina

Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev

Ivan Kudryavtsev

Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

N. Berezovskaya

Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov

Ye. Seleznyov

Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

Darya Zerkalova

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

Aleksandr Timontayev

Aleksandr Timontayev

Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky

Mikhail Povolotsky

Sergei, the ship's waiter

Nikolay Gorlov

Nikolay Gorlov

Ship's Steward

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Grandfather Kachirin

Vyacheslav Novikov

Vyacheslav Novikov

Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikolai Plotnikov

Zhikaryov, icon painter

N. Chugunov

N. Chugunov

Ivan Larionovich

Ivan Chuvelyov

Ivan Chuvelyov

Sitanev, craftsman

V. Terentyev

V. Terentyev

Kapendiukin

Vladimir Maruta

Vladimir Maruta

Mitropolsky

Nikolai Valbert

Nikolai Valbert

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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.

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