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My Apprenticeship (1939)

5.7 | Sep 12, 1939 (SU) | Drama | 01:40

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.

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Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
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Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman
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Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
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Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna
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Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
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N. Berezovskaya
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
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Ye. Seleznyov
Viktor Ivanov, son
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Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
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Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
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Mikhail Povolotsky
Sergei, the ship's waiter

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