Rent The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
3.7 of 5 from 56 ratings
1h 36min
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- Synopsis:
- "My Childhood" is the first part of Mark Donskoi's epic trilogy based on the autobiography of the writer Maxim Gorky. The film shows the early life of the writer with his grandparents on the Volga. Film critic Georges Sadoul places the Gorky Trilogy "among the best Russian films of the thirties.... The expression 'revolutionary romanticism' applies perfectly to these three very beautiful films whose value is increased by their fidelity to Gorky's original autobiographical works".
- Actors:
- Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Yelizaveta Alekseyeva, Vasili Novikov, Aleksandr Zhukov, K. Zubkov, Daniil Sagal, Sergey Tikhonravov, Igor Smirnov, E. Mamaev, V. Korochentchikov
- Directors:
- Mark Donskoy
- Writers:
- Mark Donskoy, Maxim Gorky, Ilya Gruzdev
- Aka:
- Detstvo Gorkogo
- Studio:
- Hyperkino
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A History of Soviet Silent Cinema, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Russia
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Reviews (1) of The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Not the alternative to Eisenstein you are looking for. - The Childhood of Maxim Gorky review by VW
If you are hoping to find another Soviet masterpiece in the mould of Eisenstein then be warned this is a very different prospect. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky is a rather conventional and very dull biopic not dissimilar to Hollywood biopics of the same era. It has no visual flair and the performances are pretty flat. It is far too deferential to its source material.
The film probably has some historical interest in that (I presume) this is what happened to Soviet cinema when the avant-garde were suppressed. Avoid.
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