The Poet

Overview

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.

Directed by Giedrius Tamoševičius, Vytautas V. Landsbergis

Top cast

Donatas Želvys

Kostas

Dainius Gavenonis

Tauras

Indrė Patkauskaitė

Julė

Martynas Nedzinskas

Eduardas

Paulius Markevičius

Partisan Voveris

Vidas Petkevičius

School head-master

Vidmantas Fijalkauskas

Lieutenant-colonel

A

Artiomas Rybakovas

Major

Andrius Darela

Lieutenant

Maksim Tuchvatulin

Soviet colaborator Anatolijus

Jevgenija Karpikova

Svetlana

Arvydas Dapšys

Kosta's neighbor

E

Elena Vasiliauskaitė

Schoolgirl Veronika

Jekaterina Makarova

Aleksandra

Ramūnas Cicėnas

Teacher

Emilija Latėnaitė-Beliauskienė

Teacher

D

Diana Anevičiūtė-Valiušaitienė

Teacher

Vaidotas Martinaitis

Teacher

Algirdas Dainavičius

Groundskeeper

A

Augustyn Marcinkevič

Young Pioneer

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