The Poet

The Poet

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.

Cast for The Poet...

Paulius Markevičius
Partisan Voveris
Arvydas Dapšys
Kosta's neighbor
Andrius Darela
Lieutenant
Vidmantas Fijalkauskas
Lieutenant-colonel
Vidas Petkevičius
School head-master
Inga Puriuškytė
Partizanu rysininke
Maksim Tuchvatulin
Soviet colaborator Anatolijus
Elena Vasiliauskaitė
Schoolgirl Veronika