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.
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")
Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
Mikhail Povolotsky
Sergei, the ship's waiter
Nikolay Gorlov
Ship's Steward
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Grandfather Kachirin
Vyacheslav 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
Mark Donskoy
Director
Ilya Gruzdev
Writer
Maxim Gorky
Book
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
Ivan Stepanov
Production Design
Ivan Malov
Camera Operator
S. Gordeev
Makeup Artist
Ivan Ladyzhnikov
Script Consultant
David Blok
Sound
V. Dmitriev
Sound Director
Rafail Perelstein
Assistant Director
P. Krasheninnikov
Assistant Camera
V. Levashev
Assistant Makeup Artist
I. Platonov
Assistant Production Design
Aleksandr Zhutaev
First Assistant Director
Ya. Raykh
First Assistant Director
A. Tsverik
Administration
Maria Torgantseva
Executive Producer
Mark Donskoy
Writer