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.

Donatas Želvys

(Kostas)

Dainius Gavenonis

(Tauras)

Indrė Patkauskaitė

(Julė)

Martynas Nedzinskas

(Eduardas)

Paulius Markevičius

(Partisan Voveris)

Vidas Petkevicius

(School head-master)

Vidmantas Fijalkauskas

(Lieutenant-colonel)

Artiomas Rybakovas

(Major)

Andrius Darela

(Lieutenant)

Maksim Tuchvatulin

(Soviet colaborator Anatolijus)

Jevgenija Karpikova

(Svetlana)

Arvydas Dapšys

(Kosta's neighbor)

Elena Vasiliauskaitė

(Schoolgirl Veronika)

Jekaterina Makarova

(Aleksandra)

Ramūnas Cicėnas

(Teacher)

Emilija Latėnaitė-Beliauskienė

(Teacher)

Diana Anevičiūtė-Valiušaitienė

(Teacher)

Vaidotas Martinaitis

(Teacher)

Algirdas Dainavičius

(Groundskeeper)

Augustyn Marcinkevič

(Young Pioneer)

Žygimantas Červinskas

(Play Student)

Rytė Landsbergytė

(Play Student)

Julius Prakopavičius

(Play Student)

Džiugas Šriubėnas

(Play Student)

Tautvydas Gecevičius

(Partisan)

Domantas Starkauskas

(Partisan)

Raimondas Klezys

(Partisan)

Karolis Vilkas

(Partisan)

Haroldas Liudvikas Šoblinskas

(Partisan)

Vytautas Narkevičius

(Partisan)

Andrė Stech

(Partisan)

Ričardas Bartašius

(Partisan)

Marius Karolis Gotbergas

(Partisan)

Ronaldas Buožis

(Partisan)

Saulius Ambrozaitis

(Partisan)

Andrius Mickevičius

(Partisan Bandit)

Vladimir Grigonis

(Partisan Bandit)

Kirilas Glušajevas

(Stribas)

Darius Miniotas

(Stribas)

Ovidijus Mickevičius

(Stribas)

Laimutis Kairelis

(Stribas)

Edita Gončarova

(Stribas' Wife)

Nojus Rudaitis

(Boy)

Vasarė Kondrasevičiūtė

(Baby)

Gustė Januškaitė

(Baby)

Vidas Puodžiūkas

(Villager)

Neringa Mickevičiūtė

(Villager)

Joana Narvidė

(Villager)

Ona Živilė Žekienė

(Villager)

Emilis Aškelovičius

(Villager)

Danielius Parafinovičius

(Soldier Igor)

Eugenijus Gritė

(Partisan Cook)

Augustė Lazickaitė

(Photographer)

Lukas Bagdonavičius

(Harmonica Player)

Kristina Morta Paškevičiūtė

(Girl in the Restaurant)

Gerda Čiuraitė

(Girl in the Restaurant)

Daumantas Slipkus

(Musician in the Restaurant)

Vytautas Mikeliūnas

(Musician in the Restaurant)

Vytis Nivinskas

(Musician in the Restaurant)

Inga Puriuškytė

(Partizanu rysininke)