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GREAT POETRY

БОЛЬШАЯ ПОЭЗИЯ

By Alexander LUNGIN

PROVZGLYAD LTD - as DISTR Theatrical, RUSSIA

Social issues - Completed 2019

Hell is up to us.

Busan IFF 2019

Flash Forward

Warsaw FF 2019

International Competition

Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries 2019

Main Competition, Best Director Award to Alexander Lungin and NETPAC Jury Award

Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival 2019

Main Competition; Best Director to Alexander Lungin, Best Male Part to Alexander Kuznetsov

Sakhalin International Film Festival «On the Edge» 2019

Main Competition; Best Male Part to Alexander Kuznetsov and Alexey Filimonov

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Social issues, Second film, Drama
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 123 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexander LUNGIN
- Writer(s)
- Alexander LUNGIN, Sergey OSIPIYAN
- Cast
- Alexander KUZNETSOV, Alexey FILIMONOV, Fedor LAVROV, Yevgeny SYTY, Olga MAKHOVA
- Producer(s)
- Violetta KRECHETOVA (ADDRESS FILM), Sergey OSIPIYAN (Address Film), Pavel LUNGIN (Pavel Lungin Studio), Yevgeny PANFILOV (Pavel Lungin Studio), Sergey SHTERN, Dmitry GORELIK, Artem VASILIEV, Ivan GRODETSKY (Okko), Sofia KVASHILAVA (Okko)
- Synopsis
- Great Poetry is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They’re young and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. Dreaming, they attend a poetry class and watch cock fights at a dorm for migrant workers. Attempts to find poetry in the prosaic world lead the heroes to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank.
  
  Paul Claudel wrote that a person lives their life intimately and poetically, and in our film there is a lot of poetry. But 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 ever-present and incomprehensible force that no matter what makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely.