The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)Cast and Crew

Movie

Cast

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Aleksei Lyarsky
as Aleksei Peshkov
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Varvara Massalitinova
as Akulina Ivanva Kashirin
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Mikhail Troyanovsky
as Vasili Vasilyevich Kashirin
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Yelizaveta Alekseyeva
as Varvara Kashirina Peshkova
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Aleksandr Zhukov
as Mikhail Kashirin, an uncle
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K. Zubkov
as Old Grigori
D
Daniil Sagal
as Vanya, aka 'Gypsy'
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Sergey Tikhonravov
as The Lodger

Crew

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Mark Donskoy
Director
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Mark Donskoy
Writer
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Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
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Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
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Ivan Stepanov
Production Design
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Ilya Gruzdev
Writer
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Maxim Gorky
Book

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.