The Poem

Aug 2, 1961

1h 39m

★ 0.0

Overview

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Avala Film

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Cast

Mića, mladi komunista

Zoran Milosavljević

Andrija Veković, pesnik

Vasa Pantelić

Ana Đorđević

Špela Rozin

Nemački oficir

Rade Marković

Đorđe

Velimir Živojinović

Petar

Mihajlo Viktorović

Hans, nemački vojnik

Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić

Agent

Ljuba Kovačević

Nastojnica zgrade

Ljiljana Krstić

Bolničar

Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević

Saša, porodilja sa detetom

Stanislava Pešić

Bogosava Nikšić-Bijelić

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