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.
as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
as Natalya, the washer-woman
as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
as Matriona Ivanovna
as Sergeyev, the son-in-law
as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
as Viktor Ivanov, son
as The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
as Smury, the cook
as Sergei, the ship's waiter
as Ship's Steward
as Grandfather Kachirin
as Uncle Yakov Kashirin
as Zhikaryov, icon painter
as Ivan Larionovich
as Sitanev, craftsman
as Kapendiukin
as Mitropolsky
