Mar 27, 1940
97 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

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Gorky

Stepan Kayukov

Semenov

Nikolai Dorokhin

Chatunov

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Nikiforytch

Lev Sverdlin

The Guardian

Daniil Sagal

Pletnev

Mikhail Povolotsky

The Student

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