This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)

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.

Release Date : August 24, 1959

Runtime : 95m

Genre : Drama, Family, History  

Companies : Georgia-Film

Countries : Soviet Union

Keywords : poet