My Universities
1940 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
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 (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship), future writer Gorki (Alexei Lyarsky) 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. Donskoy's depiction of street life under the Czarist regime of the late 19th century as unrelentingly depressing, filled with disenfranchised derelicts.
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Nikolai Valbert · Stepan Kayukov · Nikolai Dorokhin · Nikolai Plotnikov · Lev Sverdlin · Daniil Sagal · Mikhail Povolotsky · Pavel Shpringfeld · K. Zubkov · Vladimir Maruta
Soundtrack Lev Shvarts
Screenplay Mark Donskoy · Ilya Gruzdev · Maxim Gorky
Cinematography Pyotr Yermolov
Original title Moi universitety
Also known as Gorky 3: My Universities
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