My Universities (1940)

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.

Released March 27, 1940 97 min None+

Genres: Biography, Drama

Keywords: mdblist.belongs-to-collection, imdb.sequel, mdblist.collection-follow-up, aspectratio.1-37-1

Watch Providers: Kanopy

Production Companies: Soyuzdetfilm

Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian