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My Universities
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Title: My Universities

Release Date: 27 Mar 1940

Runtime: 1h 37m

Genre: Drama

Director: Soyuzdetfilm

Production Companies: Soyuzdetfilm

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 5.6 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Gorky: Nikolai Valbert
  • Semenov: Stepan Kayukov
  • Chatunov: Nikolai Dorokhin
  • Nikiforytch: Nikolai Plotnikov
  • The Guardian: Lev Sverdlin
  • Pletnev: Daniil Sagal
  • The Student: Mikhail Povolotsky
  • Gratchik: Mikhail Povolotsky
  • Romas: Vladimir Maruta
  • The Beard Baker: K. Zubkov
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