Released:
1959-08-24

Overview:
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

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama, Family, History

• Cast:
• 
  Rodam Chelidze
  as
  Volodia Mayakovsky
• 
  Akaki Khorava
  as
  Mayakovsky's father
• 
  Nina Shaternikova
  as
  Mother
• 
  Antonina Maksimova
  as
  Lyudmila
• 
  Emiliya Sudakova
  as
  Olya