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.
as Volodia Mayakovsky
as Mayakovsky's father
as Mother
as Lyudmila
as Olya
as Arsena
as Mikho
as David
as Nato
as Vasiliev
as Akaki Tsereteli
as Lado Meskhishvili
as Alikhanov-Avarski
as Kokorev
as Kolpakov
as Photographer