The Poem

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.

Cast

Zoran Milosavljević

as Mića, mladi komunista

Vasa Pantelić

as Andrija Veković, pesnik

Špela Rozin

as Ana Đorđević

Rade Marković

as Nemački oficir

Velimir Živojinović

as Đorđe

Mihajlo Viktorović

as Petar

Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić

as Hans, nemački vojnik

Ljuba Kovačević

as Agent

Ljiljana Krstić

as Nastojnica zgrade

Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević

as Bolničar

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