Lilya
Directed by Vera Storozheva
Plot
The year is 1915; World War I is underway. In Petrograd, the young Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky meets a married couple, Lilya and Osip Brik. He reads them his poem *A Cloud in Trousers*; Lilya and Osip fall instantly and forever in love with Mayakovsky’s poetry, recognizing an extraordinary talent—a poetic genius—before them. Vladimir, in turn, falls in love with Lilya—also instantly and forever.
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Cast
Mariya Smolnikova
Lilya Brik
Evgeniy Stychkin
Osip Brik
Andrey Maksimov
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Angelina Strechina
Elza
Agrippina Steklova
Aleksei German Jr.
Viktor Shklovsky
Andrey Smolyakov
Maxim Gorky
Ivan Agapov
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Mikhail Krylov
Aleksei Kruchyonykh
Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk
Sofia Parnok
Elizaveta Arzamasova
Ellie Jones
Victor Dobronravov