My Universities (1940)

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Released:
1940-03-27

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.

Director:
Mark Donskoy

Runtime:
1h 37min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Nikolai Valbert
    as
    Gorky
  • Stepan Kayukov
    as
    Semenov
  • Nikolai Dorokhin
    as
    Chatunov
  • Nikolai Plotnikov
    as
    Nikiforytch
  • Lev Sverdlin
    as
    The Guardian