My Apprenticeship
Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Cast
Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Grandfather Kachirin
Ivan Chuvelyov
Sitanev, craftsman
Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna
Mikhail Povolotsky
Sergei, the ship's waiter
Nikolai Plotnikov
Zhikaryov, icon painter
Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Nikolay Gorlov
Ship's Steward
Vyacheslav Novikov
Uncle Yakov Kashirin
Vladimir Maruta
Mitropolsky
Nikolai Valbert
Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman
Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina