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Great Poetry (2019)

Great Poetry (2019)

Drama
Release Date: 2019, November 28
Directors: Alexandr Lungin
Countries: Russia
Production: Pavel Lungin Studio, Addressfilm (RU)
Cast: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksey Filimonov, Igor Kulachko, Yuri Klimov, Yevgeni Syty, Seydulla Moldakhanov, Fyodor Lavrov, Viktor Konukhin, Aleksandr Mironov, Mariya Bolshova, Elena Makhova, Sevastyan Bugaev

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