Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
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Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman
Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Elizaveta Lilina as Matriona Ivanovna
Ivan Kudryavtsev as Sergeyev, the son-in-law
N. Berezovskaya as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
Ye. Seleznyov as Viktor Ivanov, son
Darya Zerkalova as The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Aleksandr Timontayev as Smury, the cook
Mikhail Povolotsky as Sergei, the ship's waiter
Nikolay Gorlov as Ship's Steward
Mikhail Troyanovsky as Grandfather Kachirin
Vasili Novikov as Uncle Yakov Kashirin
Nikolai Plotnikov as Zhikaryov, icon painter
N. Chugunov as Ivan Larionovich
Ivan Chuvelyov as Sitanev, craftsman
V. Terentyev as Kapendiukin
Vladimir Maruta as Mitropolsky
Nikolai Valbert as
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