Great Poetry

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Great Poetry (2019)

Directed by Alexandr Lungin

Drama · 2h 00m

“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

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Cast

Crew

Director
Alexandr Lungin
Screenplay
Alexandr Lungin, Sergey Osipyan
Director of Photography
Vsevolod Kaptur
Original Music Composer
Stanislav Smirnov
Editor
Mukharam Kabulova, Vladislav Kaptur
Producer
Pavel Lungin, Violetta Krechetova, Dmitry Gorelik, Sergey Shtern, Artem Vasilyev, Ivan Grodetsky

Details

Original title
Большая поэзия
Release date
2019-11-28
Runtime
2h 00m
Genres
Drama
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
Russia
Production
Pavel Lungin Studio, Addressfilm (RU)