Maxim Gorky
Writing
1869-03-28 · Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection 'Sketches and Stories' (1899), plays 'The Philistines' (1901), 'The Lower Depths' (1902) and 'Children of the Sun' (1905), poem 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901), autobiographical trilogy 'My Childhood', 'In the World', 'My Universities' (1913–1923), and novel 'Mother' (1906). Though Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, most are now seen as masterpieces. Some of his less-known post-revolutionary works such as the cycles 'Fragments from My Diary' (1924) and 'Stories of 1922–1924' (1925), and novels 'The Artamonov Business' (1925) and 'The Life of Klim Samgin' (1925–1936), Gorky himself was more proud of; the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and sometimes being viewed by critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism"), these differ with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky).
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
2026 · Movie
The devil's love
2024 · Movie
Kinder der Sonne
2023 · Movie
The Lower Depths
2022 · Movie
The Cure
2021 · Movie
Legends of Cinema
2016 · Series
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016 · Series
Kinder der Sonne
2015 · Movie
The Lower Depths
2014 · Movie
Boles
2013 · Movie
The Last Ones
2012 · Movie
Ilaingan
2011 · Movie
The Philistines
2007 · Movie
Stormy Petrel
2004 · Movie
Eccentrics
2000 · Movie
Summerfolk
1995 · Movie
Poslední
1991 · Movie
Mother
1990 · Movie
Eccentrics
1989 · Movie
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988 · Series
Without Sun
1987 · Movie
The Zykovs
1987 · Movie
Life of Klim Samgin
1986 · Movie
Children of the Sun
1985 · Movie
Children of the Sun
1985 · Series
Malva
1984 · Movie
Maa
1984 · Movie
Vassa
1983 · Movie
The Petty Bourgeois
1983 · Movie
The Zykovs
1981 · Movie
Vassa Železnovová
1980 · Movie
Falošný peniaz
1980 · Movie
Enemies
1978 · Movie
Vassa Zheleznova
1978 · Movie
The Orlovs
1978 · Movie
Meštiaci
1978 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1978 · Movie
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
1976 · Movie
Dostigayev and Others
1976 · Movie
Summer Guests
1976 · Movie
The Counterfeit Coin
1975 · Movie
Enemies
1974 · Movie
Matka
1974 · Movie
The Last Ones
1973 · Movie
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
1973 · Movie
A Man Before His Time
1973 · Movie
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak
1972 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1972 · Movie
The Philistines
1971 · Movie
Vassa Železnovová
1970 · Movie
Jegor Bulyčov
1970 · Movie
Bývalí ľudia
1970 · Movie
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970 · Series
Shake-Up
1970 · Movie
Threesome
1970 · Movie
The Zykovs
1970 · Movie
Before the Storm
1969 · Movie
Forest
1969 · Movie
Piccoli borghesi
1968 · Movie
Out of Boredom
1968 · Movie
Across Rus'
1968 · Movie
Jegor Bulyčov
1968 · Movie
Li-ittle!
1968 · Movie
Summer Residents
1967 · Movie
Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
1967 · Movie
Eccentrics
1967 · Movie
Song of a Falcon
1967 · Movie
The Legend of the Flaming Heart
1967 · Movie
Onde a Terra Começa
1966 · Movie
The Philistines
1965 · Movie
The Magic Beam
1963 · Movie
Appassionata
1963 · Movie
Wassa Schelesnowa
1963 · Movie
Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí
1962 · Movie
Měšťáci
1962 · Movie
Foma Gordeyev
1959 · Movie
Dostigayev and Others
1959 · Movie
Měšťáci
1958 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1957 · Movie
The Mother
1956 · Movie
Mother
1956 · Movie
Malva
1956 · Movie
Children of the Sun
1956 · Movie
La Vida No Vale Nada
1955 · Movie
Měšťáci
1954 · Movie
Vassa Zheleznova
1953 · Movie
The Barbarians
1953 · Movie
Foes
1953 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1952 · Movie
Night Inn
1947 · Movie
Albergue de mujeres
1946 · Movie
Mother
1941 · Movie
The Artamonov Case
1941 · Movie
My Universities
1940 · Movie
Maxim Gorky
1940 · Movie
My Apprenticeship
1939 · Movie
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938 · Movie
Enemies
1938 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1936 · Movie
Soviets on Parade
1933 · Movie
Cain and Artem
1930 · Movie
An Affair of the Clasps
1929 · Movie
Mother
1926 · Movie
The Madness of the Valiants
1926 · Movie
Souls on the Road
1921 · Movie
Mother
1920 · Movie