My Universities (1940)
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.
Director: Mark Donskoy
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Nikolai Valbert as Gorky |
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Stepan Kayukov as Semenov |
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Nikolai Dorokhin as Chatunov |
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Nikolai Plotnikov as Nikiforytch |
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Lev Sverdlin as The Guardian |
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Daniil Sagal as Pletnev |
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Mikhail Povolotsky as The Student |
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Mikhail Povolotsky as Gratchik |
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Vladimir Maruta as Romas |
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K. Zubkov as The Beard Baker |
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A. Smolko as Pacha the gipsy |
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V. Dancheva as The Woman |
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Irina Fedotova as Macha |
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Pavel Dozhdev as Yacha |
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Mikhail Troyanovsky as Professor Studentsky |
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Aleksandr Gruzinsky as Kuzin |
| Directing | Mark Donskoy | Director |
| Camera | Pyotr Yermolov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Ilya Gruzdev | Writer |
| Writing | Mark Donskoy | Writer |
| Writing | Maxim Gorky | Book |
| Writing | Ilya Gruzdev | Script Consultant |
| Sound | V. Dmitriev | Sound Director |
| Art | Ivan Stepanov | Production Design |
| Directing | Rafail Perelstein | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ivan Malov | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | S. Gordeev | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | P. Krasheninnikov | Camera Technician |
| Production | Ya. Froynd | Producer |
| Production | A. Tsverik | Producer |
| Directing | Evgeniy Zilbershtein | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ya. Raykh | Assistant Director Trainee |
| Directing | Aleksandr Zhutaev | Assistant Director Trainee |
