Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship
Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship () is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy. Plot Alyosha Peshkov goes to work with his uncle, a draftsman, then a dishwasher, after which he goes to learn icon painting. He is kind and honest in nature; he cannot accept the surrounding injustice and he is without housing. Starring Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky) Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina Ye. Lilina as Matriona Ivanovna Ivan Kudryavtsev as Sergeyev, the son-in-law (as I. Kudryavtsev) Nadezhda Berezovskaya as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter (as N. Berezovskaya) Ye. Seleznyov as Viktor Ivanov, son Darya Zerkalova as The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo") (as D. Zerkalova) Aleksandr Timontayev as Smury, the cook (as A. Timontayev) Mikhail Povolotsky as Sergei, the ship's waiter References External links 1939 films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet drama films 1939 drama films Films set in Nizhny Novgorod