This Is How Mayakovsky Began
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
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
