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Детство Горького (1938)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski's trilogy based upon Gorky's memoirs. Alexei Lyarsky plays the young Maxim, who 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 (Varvara Massalitinova), who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse. Gorky's (and Donski's) deep abiding love for Russia is conveyed through the film's remarkably romanticist landscape shots along the Volga River, which cry out for Technicolor.
Updated May 25 2020
Cast
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Vasili Vasilyevich Kashirin
Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (as Alyosha Lyarsky)
Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanva Kashirin
Yelizaveta Alekseyeva
Varvara Kashirina Peshkova
Sergey Tikhonravov
The Lodger
K. Zubkov
Old Grigori
Aleksandr Zhukov
Mikhail Kashirin, an uncle
Crew
Mark Donskoy
Director
Mark Donskoy
Writer
Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
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