My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Nikolai ValbertGorky | Gorky |
 Stepan KayukovSemenov | Semenov |
 Nikolai DorokhinChatunov | Chatunov |
 Nikolai PlotnikovNikiforytch | Nikiforytch |
 Lev SverdlinThe Guardian | The Guardian |
 Daniil SagalPletnev | Pletnev |
 Mikhail PovolotskyThe Student | The Student |
| Mikhail PovolotskyGratchik | Gratchik |
 Vladimir MarutaRomas | Romas |
| KK. ZubkovThe Beard Baker | The Beard Baker |
| AA. SmolkoPacha the gipsy | Pacha the gipsy |
| VV. DanchevaThe Woman | The Woman |
 Irina FedotovaMacha | Macha |
| PPavel DozhdevYacha | Yacha |
 Mikhail TroyanovskyProfessor Studentsky | Professor Studentsky |
 Aleksandr GruzinskyKuzin | Kuzin |