This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
Drama
Family
History
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
Volodia Mayakovsky
Mayakovsky's father
Nato
Lado Meskhishvili
Alikhanov-Avarski
Kokorev
Kolpakov
Photographer
Mother
Lyudmila
Olya
Arsena
Mikho
David
Vasiliev
Akaki Tsereteli
Crew
Director
Writer
Story
Writer
Producer
Music
Cinematography
Art Direction
Costume Design
Second Unit Director
Second Unit Director
Sound
Writer