Mark DONSKOY
Марк ДОНСКОЙ
Marc DONSKOI
USSR, 1938, 100mn 
Black and white, fiction
My Apprenticeship
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В людях

 

 En gagnant mon pain

 V liudiakh

 
Directed by : Mark DONSKOY (Марк ДОНСКОЙ)
Writing credits : Ilya GRUZDEV (Илья ГРУЗДЕВ)
 
Cast
N. BEREZOVSKAYA (Н. БЕРЕЗОВСКАЯ) ...Sergueeva
Ivan CHUVELEV (Иван ЧУВЕЛЕВ) ...Sitanov, peintre d'icônes
Ivan KUDRYVTSEV (Иван КУДРЯВЦЕВ) ...Sergueev, le dessinateur
Aleksey LYARSKY (Алексей ЛЯРСКИЙ) ...Alekseï Pechkov
Varvara MASALITINOVA (Варвара МАССАЛИТИНОВА) ...Akoulina Ivanovna, la grand-mère
Nikolay PLOTNIKOV (Николай ПЛОТНИКОВ) ...Jikharev, peintre d'icônes
Mikhail TROYANOVSKY (Михаил ТРОЯНОВСКИЙ) ...Kachirine, le grand-père
Irina ZARUBINA (Ирина ЗАРУБИНА) ...Natalia la blanchisseuse
 
Cinematography : Pyotr ERMOLOV (Пётр ЕРМОЛОВ)
Production design : Ivan STEPANOV (Иван СТЕПАНОВ)
Music : Lev SCHWARTZ (Лев ШВАРЦ)
Sound : Vladimir_2 DMITRIYEV (Владимир_2 ДМИТРИЕВ)
Restauration : Studios Gorki (restauration en 1977)
Release date in Russia : 31/03/1939
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Prix Staline, degré II pour Mark Donskoï, 1941
Prix R. Unnington à Mark Donskoï au Festival d'Edinbourg, 1955

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico.
Sous-titres : RU EN FR ES IT DE PT

Plot synopsis
My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life. Before he can make up his own mind, Gorki is trapped into serfdom by a wealthy family. As he grows from his teen years to full manhood, Gorki fights his way towards freedom of thought and body. Based on Gorki's autobiography, the film was followed in 1940 by My Universities. My Apprenticeship has also been released as On His Own and Among People
Hal Erickson, www.allmovie.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022
- Retrospective Russian cinema at the "Reflet Médicis", Paris (France), 2009
- Festival de cinéma russe au cinéma Le Méliès à Montreuil, Montreuil (France), 2009
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2005
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1989

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