This Is How Mayakovsky Began

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1959 · 95 min · Drama · Family · History · TMDB 7.0/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Konstantine Pipinashvili

Cast

• Rodam Chelidze — Volodia Mayakovsky
• Akaki Khorava — Mayakovsky's father
• Nina Shaternikova — Mother
• Antonina Maksimova — Lyudmila
• Emiliya Sudakova — Olya