

97 minutes
3/27/1940
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
as Gorky

Stepan Kayukov
as Semenov

Nikolai Dorokhin
as Chatunov

Nikolai Plotnikov
as Nikiforytch

Lev Sverdlin
as The Guardian

Daniil Sagal
as Pletnev

Mikhail Povolotsky
as The Student

Mikhail Povolotsky
as Gratchik
Vladimir Maruta
as Romas
K. Zubkov
as The Beard Baker
A. Smolko
as Pacha the gipsy
V. Dancheva
as The Woman
Irina Fedotova
as Macha
Pavel Dozhdev
as Yacha

Mikhail Troyanovsky
as Professor Studentsky

Aleksandr Gruzinsky
as Kuzin