This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
1h 35m | PG-13
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.
Director: Konstantine Pipinashvili
Studio: Georgia-Film
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Video: 720p
Cast
Rodam Chelidze
as Volodia Mayakovsky
Akaki Khorava
as Mayakovsky's father
Nina Shaternikova
as Mother
Antonina Maksimova
as Lyudmila
Emiliya Sudakova
as Olya
Guram Tsereteli
as Arsena