My Universities (1940)

  • NR
  • 03/27/1940 (SU)
  • Drama
  • 1h 37m

Overview

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.

Mark Donskoy

Director, Writer

Ilya Gruzdev

Writer

Cast

Nikolai Valbert's headshot

Nikolai Valbert

Gorky
Stepan Kayukov's headshot

Stepan Kayukov

Semenov
Nikolai Dorokhin's headshot

Nikolai Dorokhin

Chatunov
Nikolai Plotnikov's headshot

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikiforytch
Lev Sverdlin's headshot

Lev Sverdlin

The Guardian
Daniil Sagal's headshot

Daniil Sagal

Pletnev
Mikhail Povolotsky's headshot

Mikhail Povolotsky

The Student
Mikhail Povolotsky's headshot

Mikhail Povolotsky

Gratchik

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