Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Mark Donskoy
Director, Writer
Ilya Gruzdev
Writer

Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
N. Berezovskaya
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
Ye. Seleznyov
Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")

Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
Eleanor the Great69%
Chaplin74%
Gigi & Nate76%
Лев Яшин. Вратарь моей мечты75%
The Girl in the Book58%
Strange Weather58%
Cass58%
Fast Girls60%
Полеты во сне и наяву64%
All Day and a Night62%
Fedora67%
Tuesdays with Morrie73%
Holy Lands61%
Skin64%
uwantme2killhim?59%
TalhotBlond63%
The Safety of Objects65%
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere66%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
Cardboard Boxer63%