
My Apprenticeship
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Movie Overview
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.
Cast

Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov
Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")