
This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
NR
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Aug 24, 1959 (SU)
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Drama, Family, History
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01:35
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

Mikheil Kvarelashvili
Akaki Tsereteli

Irine Magalashvili
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