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This Is How Mayakovsky Began

Aug 24, 1959 · 1h 35m
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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.

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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
Directed by Konstantine Pipinashvili

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Original language
KA
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Georgia-Film
Country
SU

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