The Poet

Movie
Audience Score
100
The Poet
NR 1 hr 52 minHistory, Drama, War
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 antiSoviet 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 platoons underground bunker