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.

Genre: Drama, Family, History

Director: Konstantine Pipinashvili

Actors: Rodam Chelidze, Akaki Khorava, Nina Shaternikova, Antonina Maksimova, Emiliya Sudakova, Guram Tsereteli, Zurab Laperadze, Edisher Magalashvili, Irine Magalashvili, Igor Vladimirov

Release date: 1959-08-24

Country of origin: SU

Length: 1h 35m