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GREAT POETRY (БОЛЬШАЯ ПОЭЗИЯ)
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Completed - RUSSIAN - Social issues, Second film, Drama - 123 minutes

Log Line

Hell is up to us.

Year of production : 2019

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.

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Country(ies) : RUSSIA

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Festivals and Awards

Busan IFF 2019 Flash Forward
Warsaw FF 2019 International Competition
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)
Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries 2019 (Main Competition, Best Director Award to Alexander Lungin and NETPAC Jury Award )


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