This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)

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.
- Released
- 1959-08-24
- Genres
- Drama, Family, History
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Konstantine Pipinashvili
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Rodam Chelidze as Volodia Mayakovsky
- Akaki Khorava as Mayakovsky's father
- Nina Shaternikova as Mother
- Antonina Maksimova as Lyudmila
- Emiliya Sudakova as Olya
- Guram Tsereteli as Arsena
- Edisher Magalashvili as David
- Igor Vladimirov as Vasiliev
- Mikheil Kvarelashvili as Akaki Tsereteli
- Irine Magalashvili as Nato
- Enriko Ghaghanidze as Lado Meskhishvili
- Akaki Vasadze as Alikhanov-Avarski