My Universities

5.5
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 97 min
  • Premiere: 1940. March 27.

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.

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Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikiforytch

Lev Sverdlin

The Guardian

Daniil Sagal

Pletnev

Mikhail Povolotsky

The Student

K. Zubkov

The Beard Baker

A. Smolko

Pacha the gipsy

V. Dancheva

The Woman

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Professor Studentsky

Art

Ivan Stepanov

Production Design

Camera

Pyotr Yermolov

Director of Photography

Ivan Malov

Camera Operator

P. Krasheninnikov

Camera Technician

Costume & Make-Up

S. Gordeev

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Mark Donskoy

Director

Rafail Perelstein

First Assistant Director

Evgeniy Zilbershtein

Second Assistant Director

Ya. Raykh

Assistant Director Trainee

Aleksandr Zhutaev

Assistant Director Trainee

Production

Ya. Froynd

Producer

A. Tsverik

Producer

Sound

Lev Shvarts

Original Music Composer

V. Dmitriev

Sound Director

Writing

Ilya Gruzdev

Script Consultant

Art

Ivan Stepanov

Production Design

Camera

Pyotr Yermolov

Director of Photography

Ivan Malov

Camera Operator

P. Krasheninnikov

Camera Technician

Costume & Make-Up

S. Gordeev

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Mark Donskoy

Director

Rafail Perelstein

First Assistant Director

Evgeniy Zilbershtein

Second Assistant Director

Ya. Raykh

Assistant Director Trainee

Aleksandr Zhutaev

Assistant Director Trainee

Production

Ya. Froynd

Producer

A. Tsverik

Producer

Sound

Lev Shvarts

Original Music Composer

V. Dmitriev

Sound Director

Writing

Ilya Gruzdev

Script Consultant