This Is How Mayakovsky Began

This Is How Mayakovsky Began

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  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 24, 1959

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Drama, Family, History

Original Title

მაიაკოვსკი იწყებოდა ასე

Production Companies

Georgia-Film

Director

Konstantine Pipinashvili

Description

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.