This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
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
Emiliya Sudakova
Olya
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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