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.

Drama

Aleksei Lyarsky

(Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky))

Irina Zarubina

(Natalya, the washer-woman)

Varvara Massalitinova

(Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina)

Ye. 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"))

Aleksandr Timontayev

(Smury, the cook)

Mikhail Povolotsky

(Sergei, the ship's waiter)

Nikolay Gorlov

(Ship's Steward)

Mikhail Troyanovsky

(Grandfather Kachirin)

Vasili Novikov

(Uncle Yakov Kashirin)

Nikolai Plotnikov

(Zhikaryov, icon painter)

N. Chugunov

(Ivan Larionovich)

Ivan Chuvelyov

(Sitanev, craftsman)

V. Terentyev

(Kapendiukin)

Vladimir Maruta

(Mitropolsky)

Nikolai Valbert