This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)

7.0/10 95 min Drama Family History

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.

Cast

Akaki Khorava

Mayakovsky's father

Nina Shaternikova

Mother

Antonina Maksimova

Lyudmila

Edisher Magalashvili

David

Igor Vladimirov

Vasiliev

Irine Magalashvili

Nato

Akaki Vasadze

Alikhanov-Avarski

Pyotr Dolzhanov

Photographer

Zurab Laperadze

Mikho

Kira Andronikashvili

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