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My Universities (1940)
Directed by Mark Donskoy
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.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Nikolai Valbert | Stepan Kayukov | Nikolai Dorokhin | Nikolai Plotnikov | Lev Sverdlin | Daniil Sagal | Mikhail Povolotsky | Vladimir Maruta | K. Zubkov | A. Smolko | V. Dancheva | Irina Fedotova | Pavel Dozhdev | Mikhail Troyanovsky | Aleksandar Gruzinskiy