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“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 lonelyRead moreLess
“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
The story
“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
Cast & crew
Aleksandr KuznetsovViktor
Aleksey FilimonovLyokha
Fyodor LavrovTsypin
Yevgeni SytyRotniy
Elena MakhovaOlga
Alexandr TopuriyaKechaev
Mariya BolshovaKristina
Seydulla MoldakhanovMukhamed
Sevastyan BugaevPavlik
RE-pacclub host
Ekaterina Troepolskayaassistant of the hostExplore the crew
- Producer
- Pavel Lungin
- Producer
- Violetta Krechetova
- Producer
- Dmitry Gorelik
- Screenplay
- Alexandr Lungin
- Screenplay
- Sergey Osipyan
- Director of Photography
- Vsevolod Kaptur
- Director
- Alexandr Lungin
- Producer
- Sergey Shtern
- Producer
- Artem Vasilyev
- Producer
- Ivan Grodetsky
- Editor
- Mukharam Kabulova
- Original Music Composer
- Stanislav Smirnov
- Editor
- Vladislav Kaptur