Great Poetry (2019)

  • NR
  • 10/10/2019 (KR)
  • Drama
  • 2h

Overview

“Great Poetry” is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They’re young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. They attend a poetry class at the local cultural center and watch cockfights at a dorm for migrant workers. Their attempts at finding poetry in the prosaic world around lead them to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank. The film isn’t about words or rhymes. It’s about friendship and betrayal, and about our vicious and alien world in which anyone who tries to be honest and consistent ends up looking naïve and cruel. It’s about the everpresent and incomprehensible force that — in spite of everything — makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely

Alexandr Lungin

Screenplay, Director

Sergey Osipyan

Screenplay

Cast

Aleksandr Kuznetsov's headshot

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Viktor
Aleksey Filimonov's headshot

Aleksey Filimonov

Lyokha
Fyodor Lavrov's headshot

Fyodor Lavrov

Tsypin
Yevgeni Syty's headshot

Yevgeni Syty

Rotniy
Elena Makhova's headshot

Elena Makhova

Olga
Alexandr Topuriya's headshot

Alexandr Topuriya

Kechaev
Mariya Bolshova's headshot

Mariya Bolshova

Kristina
Seydulla Moldakhanov's headshot

Seydulla Moldakhanov

Mukhamed

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