Russia / Mar 27, 1940
1h 37min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Mikhail Povolotsky | 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 |
Genres
Drama
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Мои университеты |
| Original language | Pусский (RU) |
| Spoken languages | Pусский |
| Production countries | Soviet Union |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Soyuzdetfilm |
| Release date | 27 marzo 1940 |
| Production | Ya. Froynd, A. Tsverik |
| Writer | Ilya Gruzdev, Mark Donskoy, Maxim Gorky |
| Cinematography | Pyotr Yermolov, Ivan Malov, P. Krasheninnikov |
| Assistant directors | Rafail Perelstein, Evgeniy Zilbershtein, Mark Donskoy, Ya. Raykh, Aleksandr Zhutaev |
| Camera operators | Ivan Malov, Pyotr Yermolov, P. Krasheninnikov |
| Additional photography | Pyotr Yermolov, Ivan Malov, P. Krasheninnikov |
| Production design | Ivan Stepanov |
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| Art direction | Ivan Stepanov |
| Set decoration | Ivan Stepanov |
| Music | Lev Shvarts, V. Dmitriev |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts, V. Dmitriev |
| Costume design | S. Gordeev |
| Makeup | S. Gordeev |
| Hairstyling | S. Gordeev |
| Collection | The Gorky Collection |
Release dates
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