Detstvo Gorkogo (1938)

A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

Mark Donskoy

Director

Aleksei Lyarsky

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky) (as Alyosha Lyarsky)

Vladimir Maslatsov

as Member of 'The Gang' (uncredited)

Varvara Massalitinova

as Akulina Ivanva Kashirin, grandmother

Nikolay Pogodin

as Member of 'The Gang' (uncredited)

Daniil Sagal

as Ivan, aka 'Gypsy'

Igor Smirnov

as Alexei, aka 'Lenka' or 'Lex', a crippled boy

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