Detstvo Gorkogo

1938Movie⏱️ 1h 38m

BiographyDrama

⭐ 7.2

IMDB Rating

837 votes

A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

Director

Mark Donskoy

Writers

Mark Donskoy, Maxim Gorky, Ilya Gruzdev

Stars

Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy

Release Date

September 27, 1938

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

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Wins

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🎭 Top Cast

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Aleksei Lyarsky

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Varvara Massalitinova

as Akulina Ivanva Kashirin, grandmother

Mikhail Troyanovskiy

as Vasili Vasilyevich Kashirin, grandfather

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Elizaveta Alekseeva

as Varvara Kashirina Peshkova, mother

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Vyacheslav Novikov

as Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Aleksandr Zhukov

as Mikhail Kashirin, an uncle

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K. Zubkov

as Old Grigori

Daniil Sagal

as Ivan, aka 'Gypsy'

Sergey Tikhonravov

as The Lodger

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Igor Smirnov

as Alexei, aka 'Lenka' or 'Lex', a crippled boy

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Production

Soyuzdetfilm

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

RussianComing-of-AgeBiographyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

A heartbreakingly honest film.

by Irene212 • 2008-03-25

10/10

"When Dwight Macdonald (a brilliant, iconoclastic film critic for decades, for Esquire, Paris Review, the New Yorker, and other magazines) taught a film course at the University of Wisconsin in the '70s, this was one of only about 15 films in his course. (Others included Rules of the Game, Children of Paradise, Keaton's Cops, and Seven Samurai, to give you an idea of the range and level of films he chose.) This film has stayed with me-- in a way, it has haunted me-- for thirty years, since I first saw it back then. I only recently rented it from Netflix and discovered, all over again,..."