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1939 · 100 mins · Russian
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Directed by
Mark Donskoy
Starring
Nikolay Gorlov, Ivan Kudryavtsev, Nikolai Plotnikov, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Irina Zarubina

The second installment of director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorki trilogy continues the autobiographical saga begun in My Childhood (1938). It follows the teenage Alexei Lyarsky, Gorky’s younger self, as he leaves home, drifts through towns, takes menial work and struggles to find direction and meaning in a rapidly changing world.

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