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.

Credits

Mark DonskoyDirector

Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina ZarubinaNatalya, the washer-woman

Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta LilinaMatriona Ivanovna