Poet Movies

  • 2007
    Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

    Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

    Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

    02007HD

    Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw...

    Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa
  • 1979
    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast

    01979HD

    A career-spanning 1979 concert by Patti Smith and her band from Essen, Germany and broadcast on WDR's Rockpalast. Bonus interview after the concert.

    Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast
  • 1991
    My Brother Aleksa

    My Brother Aleksa

    My Brother Aleksa

    01991HD

    The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family...

    My Brother Aleksa
  • 1961
    The Poem

    The Poem

    The Poem

    01961HD

    An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not...

    The Poem
  • 1984
    Fragi - Away from Happiness

    Fragi - Away from Happiness

    Fragi - Away from Happiness

    01984HD

    Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

    Fragi - Away from Happiness
  • 2008
    El Abuelo

    El Abuelo

    El Abuelo

    02008HD

    Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is an intimate portrait of local educator and poet, Joe Jimenez. Through the meditative process of...

    El Abuelo
  • 1992
    Bun Tang Khai

    Bun Tang Khai

    Bun Tang Khai

    01992HD

    Shin and Pongkwan have a cute daughter. which corresponds to that of Grandfather Or Shin's father had hoped for it. because of Shin's brothers They...

    Bun Tang Khai
  • 1978
    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    01978HD

    Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action,...

    Poet of His People
  • 2007
    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    02007HD

    Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
  • 1999
    Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

    Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

    Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

    01999HD

    The lifetime of the great Argentinian man of letters Jorge Luis Borges through narration and interviews of such key players in his life as Leonor de...

    Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man
  • 1995
    Patience

    Patience

    Patience

    01995HD

    A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House. Bunthorne, a poet worshiped by...

    Patience
  • 1986
    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

    01986HD

    Concert in Boris Grebenshchikov's communal apartment (Leningrad, May 1986)

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment
  • 1970
    Caminhar

    Caminhar

    Caminhar

    01970HD

    a young artist tired of his lonely life decides to walk through the city and reunite with someone from his past.

    Caminhar
  • 1971
    London Line No. 373

    London Line No. 373

    London Line No. 373

    01971HD

    A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.

    London Line No. 373
  • 1967
    Kost Returns

    Kost Returns

    Kost Returns

    01967HD

    ...The poet returns from exile to his native village of Nar. No matter how or where he returned, the poor mountaineers shared everything with him:...

    Kost Returns
  • 1970
    Dust Flower Flame

    Dust Flower Flame

    Dust Flower Flame

    01970HD

    Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the...

    Dust Flower Flame
  • 1987
    Nostalgies of the Far West

    Nostalgies of the Far West

    Nostalgies of the Far West

    01987HD

    Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born.

    Nostalgies of the Far West
  • 2006
    Something About Halfdan

    Something About Halfdan

    Something About Halfdan

    02006HD

    A moving portrait of one of the most loved and read Danish poets, Halfdan Rasmussen. The film covers both the early years with poverty and wartime on...

    Something About Halfdan
  • 1977
    Landet som icke är

    Landet som icke är

    Landet som icke är

    01977HD

    A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self...

    Landet som icke är
  • 1976
    Karel Jonckheere

    Karel Jonckheere

    Karel Jonckheere

    01976HD

    Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and...

    Karel Jonckheere