The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
19381h 40mDrama
Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
Cast
Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov
Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanva Kashirin
Mikhail TroyanovskyVasili Vasilyevich Kashirin- YYelizaveta AlekseyevaVarvara Kashirina Peshkova
- AAleksandr ZhukovMikhail Kashirin, an uncle
- KK. ZubkovOld Grigori
Daniil SagalVanya, aka 'Gypsy'
Sergey TikhonravovThe Lodger
Vyacheslav NovikovYakov Kashirin- IIgor SmirnovAlexei, aka 'Lenka' or 'Lex', a crippled boy
- EE. MamaevSacha Kashirin, nephew
- VV. KorochentchikovMikhail's son, also named Sacha
- VValentin KorneyevMember of 'The Gang' (uncredited)
- AA. LebedevMember of 'The Gang' (uncredited)
- VVladimir MaslatsovMember of 'The Gang' (uncredited)
Nikolay PogodinMember of 'The Gang' (uncredited)- BB. RadkevichMember of 'The Gang' (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Mark Donskoy
- Writers
- Mark DonskoyIlya Gruzdev
- Music
- Lev Shvarts
- Cinematography
- Pyotr Yermolov
Details
- Released
- September 27, 1938
- Language
- Russian
- Studio
- Soyuzdetfilm
- IMDb
- tt0030055