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Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkogo)
Союздетфильм, 1938
Director: Donskoy Mark
Script: Gruzdev Ilya
Camera: Ermolov Petr
Music by: Shvarts Lev
Running time: 96 min.
Description
The first part of the well-known film trilogy by Mark Donskoy based upon Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical stories (Part Two – “My Apprenticeship”, Part Three – “My Universities”).
…The late 19th century. The city of Nizhny Novgorod. Wharves, the Volga accent, songs and people – good and bad, wretched and cruel. That was the atmosphere in which Alyosha Peshkov, the future great Russian writer Maxim Gorky, spent his childhood.
…His life in the Kashirin family was not easy: his uncles’ constant squabbling and fights for inheritance, beatings for a slightest fault. Only one person, his grandmother Akulina Ivanovna, pities the boy. After his grandfather got absolutely ruined, Alyosha had to earn his living himself. And he goes “into the world”…
“Donskoy’s film is one of the noblest works produced in the USSR before the war…”
(critic Jay Leyda)
The role of Alyosha Peshkov was the first and only film work of Alexei Lyarsky, who was killed near Leningrad in 1943.
Cast
Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Alexey Lyarsky, Daniil Sagal, Elizaveta Alexeeva, Vladimir Novikov
Awards
- USSR State Prize, 2nd Degree for the films “Childhood of Maxim Gorky” and “My Apprenticeship” to director Mark Donskoy, actress Varvara Massalitinova, 1941 IX IFF at Venice (Italy) – Italian Journalists’ Special Prize to the trilogy (“Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, “My Apprenticeship”, “My Universities”), 1948 IFF at Stockholm (Sweden) – First Prize to the trilogy (“Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, “My Apprenticeship”, “My Universities”), 1949 XI IFF at Edinburgh (Great Britain) - British Film Critic Richard Winnington Award for 1954 to the Gorky film trilogy (“Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, “My Apprenticeship”, “My Universities”), 1955
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