Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship

Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (В людях) is a 1939 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Mark Donskoy.

Plot
Alyosha Peshkov goes to work with his uncle, a draftsman, then a dishwasher, after which he goes to learn icon painting. He is kind and honest in nature; he cannot accept the surrounding injustice and he is without housing.

Starring

 * Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
 * Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman
 * Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
 * Ye. Lilina as Matriona Ivanovna
 * Ivan Kudryavtsev as Sergeyev, the son-in-law (as I. Kudryavtsev)
 * Nadezhda Berezovskaya as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter (as N. Berezovskaya)
 * Ye. Seleznyov as Viktor Ivanov, son
 * Darya Zerkalova as The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo") (as D. Zerkalova)
 * Aleksandr Timontayev as Smury, the cook (as A. Timontayev)
 * Mikhail Povolotsky as Sergei, the ship's waiter