My Universities (1940)
Original title: Мои университеты
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My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
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Nikolai ValbertGorky
Stepan KayukovSemenov
Nikolai DorokhinChatunov
Nikolai PlotnikovNikiforytch
Lev SverdlinThe Guardian
Daniil SagalPletnev
Mikhail PovolotskyThe StudentMikhail PovolotskyGratchikVladimir MarutaRomasK. ZubkovThe Beard BakerA. SmolkoPacha the gipsyV. DanchevaThe WomanMovie DNA
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What is My Universities about?
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
How long is My Universities?
My Universities has a runtime of 90 minutes.