Biography
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Маяко́вский; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement, being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and writing such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and created agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Communist Party and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, Mayakovsky's relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet State in cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialis…
Movies & TV Shows
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The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918) — the Hooligan
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Shackled by Film (1918) — The painter
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Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13 (1914)
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World Without a Game (1966) — Self (archive footage)
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Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023) — Namesake of a Cat (archive footage)
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Born Not For Money (1919) — Ivan Nov
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The Man Mayakovsky (1980) — (archive footage)
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How Mayakovsky Worked (1947) — (archive footage)