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
Gorky
Stepan Kayukov
Semenov
Nikolai Dorokhin
Chatunov
Nikolai Plotnikov
Nikiforytch
Lev Sverdlin
The Guardian
Daniil Sagal
Pletnev
Mikhail Povolotsky
The Student, Gratchik
Vladimir Maruta
Romas
K. Zubkov
The Beard Baker
A. Smolko
Pacha the gipsy
V. Dancheva
The Woman
Irina Fedotova
Macha
Pavel Dozhdev
Yacha
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Professor Studentsky
Aleksandr Gruzinsky
Kuzin
Crew
Mark Donskoy
Director, Writer
Ilya Gruzdev
Writer, Script Consultant
Maxim Gorky
Book
Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
Rafail Perelstein
First Assistant Director
Evgeniy Zilbershtein
Second Assistant Director
Ya. Froynd
Producer
A. Tsverik
Producer
Ivan Stepanov
Production Design
Ivan Malov
Camera Operator
P. Krasheninnikov
Camera Technician
S. Gordeev
Makeup & Hair
V. Dmitriev
Sound Director
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
Ya. Raykh
Assistant Director Trainee
Aleksandr Zhutaev
Assistant Director Trainee
