This Is How Mayakovsky Began
Directed by Konstantine Pipinashvili
Plot
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.
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Cast
Rodam Chelidze
Volodia Mayakovsky
Akaki Khorava
Mayakovsky's father
Nina Shaternikova
Mother
Antonina Maksimova
Lyudmila
Emiliya Sudakova
Olya
Guram Tsereteli
Arsena
Edisher Magalashvili
David
Igor Vladimirov
Vasiliev
Mikheil Kvarelashvili
Akaki Tsereteli
Irine Magalashvili
Nato
Enriko Ghaghanidze
Lado Meskhishvili
Akaki Vasadze
Alikhanov-Avarski
Lazare Kazaishvili
Kokorev
Lyudvig Zakrzhevskiy
Kolpakov
Pyotr Dolzhanov
Photographer