My Universities

My Universities

5.6

Mar 27 1940

2h 37m

Drama

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.

Nikolai Valbert

Nikolai Valbert

Gorky

Stepan Kayukov

Stepan Kayukov

Semenov

Nikolai Dorokhin

Nikolai Dorokhin

Chatunov

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikiforytch

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