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.

Director: Konstantine Pipinashvili

Cast: Rodam Chelidze, Akaki Khorava, Nina Shaternikova, Antonina Maksimova, Eleanora Sudakova, Guram Tsereteli, Edisher Magalashvili, Igor Vladimirov

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