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Movie

Cast

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Nikolai Valbert
as Gorky
S
Stepan Kayukov
as Semenov
N
Nikolai Dorokhin
as Chatunov
N
Nikolai Plotnikov
as Nikiforytch
L
Lev Sverdlin
as The Guardian
D
Daniil Sagal
as Pletnev
M
Mikhail Povolotsky
as The Student
M
Mikhail Povolotsky
as Gratchik
V
Vladimir Maruta
as Romas
K
K. Zubkov
as The Beard Baker
A
A. Smolko
as Pacha the gipsy
V
V. Dancheva
as The Woman
I
Irina Fedotova
as Macha
P
Pavel Dozhdev
as Yacha
M
Mikhail Troyanovsky
as Professor Studentsky
A
Aleksandr Gruzinsky
as Kuzin

Crew

M
Mark Donskoy
Director
P
Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
L
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
I
Ilya Gruzdev
Writer
M
Maxim Gorky
Book
M
Mark Donskoy
Writer

The Gorky Collection

The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes are tautly written though loose in form. In the construction of the films, it has been necessary to compress material, combine events by minor violations of chronology, and to except liberally. This is accomplished with great skill, and almost invariably the characters are presented with Gorky's sympathy and grimy clarity.