This Is How Mayakovsky Began

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Drama,

Family,

History

Duration:

95 minutes

Year:

1958

Director:

Konstantine Pipinashvili

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Company:

Georgia-Film

Cast:
Rodam Chelidze

Volodia Mayakovsky

Akaki Khorava

Mayakovsky's father

Nina Shaternikova

Mother

Antonina Maksimova

Lyudmila

Emiliya Sudakova

Olya

Crew:
Konstantine Pipinashvili

Director

Carlo Gogodze

Writer

Lev Kassil

Writer

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Story

Konstantine Pipinashvili

Writer