Cast
Crew
P
Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
L
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
I
Ilya Gruzdev
Writer
M
Maxim Gorky
Book
I
Ilya Gruzdev
Script Consultant
V
V. Dmitriev
Sound Director
I
Ivan Stepanov
Production Design
R
Rafail Perelstein
First Assistant Director
I
Ivan Malov
Camera Operator
S
S. Gordeev
Makeup & Hair
P
P. Krasheninnikov
Camera Technician
Y
Ya. Froynd
Producer
A
A. Tsverik
Producer
E
Evgeniy Zilbershtein
Second Assistant Director
Y
Ya. Raykh
Assistant Director Trainee
The Gorky Collection
The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes are tautly written though loose in form. In the construction of the films, it has been necessary to compress material, combine events by minor violations of chronology, and to except liberally. This is accomplished with great skill, and almost invariably the characters are presented with Gorky's sympathy and grimy clarity.
