A Soviet biopic so earnest it circles back to fascinating — Futurism's angry boy king before he broke poetry.
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.
Cinematography
Bold Soviet montage meets Georgian landscape tableaus
Production
Period Kutaisi recreated with architectural obsession
Director
Konstantine Pipinashvili
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Khrushchev's Thaw, when Mayakovsky could finally be humanized rather than Stalin's 'best and most talented poet' propaganda device.
Rodam Chelidze never acted again; this single performance as young Mayakovsky remains his entire filmography — accidentally perfect for a film about sudden, inexplicable artistic emergence.
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