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
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Akaki Khorava
Mayakovsky's father
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George Saakadze
Nina Shaternikova
Mother
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Antonina Maksimova
Lyudmila
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Emiliya Sudakova
Olya
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Guram Tsereteli
Arsena
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Edisher Magalashvili
David
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Igor Vladimirov
Vasiliev
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Mikheil Kvarelashvili
Akaki Tsereteli
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Irine Magalashvili
Nato
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Enriko Ghaghanidze
Lado Meskhishvili
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Konstantine Pipinashvili Director · Lev Kassil Writer Karlo Gogodze Writer
First release October 1, 1958 · Produced in Russia · Languages Georgian, Russian
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Georgia-Film
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Russia
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Original title
მაიაკოვსკი იწყებოდა ასე
Original language
Georgian
Spoken on screen
Georgian · Russian
Release dates
Russia · October 1, 1958
Premiere · Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Russia · August 24, 1959
Theatrical · In cinemas nationwide
No release date listed for United States.
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