This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)
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.
Director: Konstantine Pipinashvili
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Rodam Chelidze as Volodia Mayakovsky |
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Akaki Khorava as Mayakovsky's father |
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Nina Shaternikova as Mother |
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Antonina Maksimova as Lyudmila |
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Eleanora Sudakova as Olya |
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Guram Tsereteli as Arsena |
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Edisher Magalashvili as David |
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Igor Vladimirov as Vasiliev |
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Mikheil Kvarelashvili as Akaki Tsereteli |
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Irine Magalashvili as Nato |
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Enriko Ghaghanidze as Lado Meskhishvili |
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Akaki Vasadze as Alikhanov-Avarski |
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Lazare Kazaishvili as Kokorev |
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Lyudvig Zakrzhevskiy as Kolpakov |
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Pyotr Dolzhanov as Photographer |
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Tengiz Amiranashvili as |
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Zurab Laperadze as Mikho |
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Kira Andronikashvili as |
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Konstantin Müfke as |
| Writing | Lev Kassil | Writer |
| Directing | G. Gunya | Second Unit Director |
| Sound | Vladimir Dolidze | Sound |
| Writing | Konstantine Pipinashvili | Writer |
| Art | Evgeni Machavariani | Art Direction |
| Production | Vakhtang Oziashvili | Producer |
| Sound | Aleqsi Machavariani | Music |
| Crew | Feliks Vysotsky | Cinematography |
| Directing | Vakhtang Shvelidze | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Konstantine Pipinashvili | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nina Manjgaladze | Costume Design |
| Writing | Karlo Gogodze | Writer |
