V lyudyakh 1939

Second entry in Ukrainian 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.

Cast:

Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky) 

Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman 

Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina 

Ye. Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna 

Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law 

N. Berezovskaya
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter 

• My Apprenticeship
• On His Own