The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes are tautly written though loose in form. In the construction of the films, it has been necessary to compress material, combine events by minor violations of chronology, and to except liberally. This is accomplished with great skill, and almost invariably the characters are presented with Gorky's sympathy and grimy clarity.
3 films
Mark Donskoy (Director)
Nikolai Valbert
Gorky
Stepan Kayukov
Semenov
Nikolai Dorokhin
Chatunov
Nikolai Plotnikov
Nikiforytch
Lev Sverdlin
The Guardian
Daniil Sagal
Pletnev
Mikhail Povolotsky
The Student
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
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My Universities 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. Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
