This Is How Mayakovsky Began

This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959) is a drama, family film directed by Konstantine Pipinashvili rated 7.0/10.

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

Rodam Chelidze

Volodia Mayakovsky

Akaki Khorava

Mayakovsky's father

Nina Shaternikova

Mother

Antonina Maksimova

Lyudmila

Emiliya Sudakova

Olya

Guram Tsereteli

Arsena

Edisher Magalashvili

David

Igor Vladimirov

Vasiliev

Mikheil Kvarelashvili

Akaki Tsereteli

Irine Magalashvili

Nato

Enriko Ghaghanidze

Lado Meskhishvili

Akaki Vasadze

Alikhanov-Avarski