“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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