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Gorky 3: My Universities (1940)

Moi universitety (original title)
| Biography, Drama | 27 March 1940 (Soviet Union)
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The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My ... See full summary »

Director:

Mark Donskoy

Writers:

Maxim Gorky (autobiography), Mark Donskoy | 1 more credit »

Stars:

Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin | See full cast & crew »
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Complete credited cast:
Nikolai Valbert Nikolai Valbert ... Aleksei Pechkov (Gorky) (as N. Valbert)
Stepan Kayukov ... Semenov
Nikolai Dorokhin Nikolai Dorokhin ... Chatunov
Nikolai Plotnikov ... Nikiforytch
Lev Sverdlin ... The Guardian
Daniil Sagal ... Pletnev
Mikhail Povolotsky Mikhail Povolotsky ... The Student
Pavel Shpringfeld ... Gratchik
Vladimir Maruta ... Romas
K. Zubkov K. Zubkov ... The Beard Baker
A. Smolko A. Smolko ... Pacha the gipsy
Valentina Dancheva Valentina Dancheva ... The Woman (as V. Dancheva)
Irina Fedotova ... Macha
Pavel Dozhdev Pavel Dozhdev ... Yacha (as Pavlik Dozhdev)
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Mikhail Troyanovskiy ... Professor Studentsky (as M. Troyanovsky)
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The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom.

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Country:

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Language:

Russian

Release Date:

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