Overview
The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.
Cast
- Vasili Lanovoy as Маяковский
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Константин Гулевой
- Aleksandr Grave as Берзинь
- Yuriy Yakovlev as Афанасий Хлебников
- Yuliya Borisova as Мария
- Anatoli Katsinsky as Лейкин
- Vyacheslav Shalevich as Левка Козин
- Nikolai Gritsenko as Степан Вытягайченко
- Grigori Abrikosov as Никита Балмашев
- Yuri Volyntsev as Василий Курдуков