
“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
Directed by Alexandr Lungin
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Cast

Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Viktor

Aleksey Filimonov
Lyokha

Fyodor Lavrov
Tsypin

Yevgeni Syty
Rotniy

Elena Makhova
Olga

Alexandr Topuriya
Kechaev

Mariya Bolshova
Kristina

Seydulla Moldakhanov
Mukhamed

Sevastyan Bugaev
Pavlik
Andronic Khachiyan
blogger

RE-pac
club host

Ekaterina Troepolskaya
assistant of the host

Viktor Konukhin
Kostyan

Aleksandr Mironov
security manager
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