My Universities 1940

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.

Cast

Nikolai Valbert

Stepan Kayukov

Nikolai Dorokhin

Nikolai Plotnikov

Lev Sverdlin

Daniil Sagal

Mikhail Povolotsky

Mikhail Povolotsky

Vladimir Maruta

K. Zubkov

A. Smolko

V. Dancheva

Irina Fedotova

Pavel Dozhdev

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Aleksandr Gruzinsky