My Apprenticeship (1939)
Original title: В людях
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Second entry in Russian 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.
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Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina ZarubinaNatalya, the washer-woman
Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanovna KashirinaYe. LilinaMatriona Ivanovna
Ivan KudryavtsevSergeyev, the son-in-lawN. BerezovskayaIvanovna-Sergeyeva, daughterYe. SeleznyovViktor Ivanov, sonDarya 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 KachirinKeywords
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What is My Apprenticeship about?
Second entry in Russian 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.
How long is My Apprenticeship?
My Apprenticeship has a runtime of 100 minutes.