My Apprenticeship

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.

• Mark DonskoyDirector
• Ilya GruzdevWriter
• Lev ShvartsOriginal Music Composer
• Mark DonskoyWriter

• Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
• Irina ZarubinaNatalya, the washer-woman
• Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanovna Kashirina
• Elizaveta LilinaMatriona Ivanovna
• Ivan KudryavtsevSergeyev, the son-in-law
• N. BerezovskayaIvanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
• Ye. SeleznyovViktor Ivanov, son
• Darya ZerkalovaThe Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
• Aleksandr TimontayevSmury, the cook
• Mikhail PovolotskySergei, the ship's waiter
• Nikolay GorlovShip's Steward
• Mikhail TroyanovskyGrandfather Kachirin