Kostas — The Poet Character Profile

About Kostas

A poet exiled by Soviet authorities to a remote village school. He publicly writes pro-Lenin propaganda while secretly composing anti-Soviet verses. After interacting with Julė and the partisans, he betrays the resistance, shoots Tauras in a bunker, and returns to town as a Soviet agent.

Kostas — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Donatas Želvys

Appears in

The Poet (2022)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (7)

• Kostas — Professional Colleague — School head-master (Vidas Petkevičius)

  Kostas works with the school head-master at the village school

• Kostas — Social Acquaintance — Eduardas (Martynas Nedzinskas)

  Kostas knows Eduardas from the writers summit

• Kostas — Professional Superior — Major (Artiomas Rybakovas)

  Kostas answers to the Major in Soviet hierarchy

• Kostas — Professional Informant — Soviet colaborator Anatolijus (Maksim Tuchvatulin)

  Kostas works with Soviet collaborator Anatolijus

• Kostas — Professional Handler — Lieutenant-colonel (Vidmantas Fijalkauskas)

  Kostas reports to the Soviet lieutenant-colonel

• Kostas — Alliance Reluctant Ally — Tauras (Dainius Gavenonis)

  Kostas works with Tauras despite his Soviet connections

• Kostas — Social Old Friend — Julė (Indrė Patkauskaitė)

  Kostas and Julė were old friends before his exile

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More characters from The Poet

• Tauras (Dainius Gavenonis)
• Julė (Indrė Patkauskaitė)
• Eduardas (Martynas Nedzinskas)
• Svetlana (Jevgenija Karpikova)
• Partisan Voveris (Paulius Markevičius)
• School head-master (Vidas Petkevičius)
• Teacher (Vaidotas Martinaitis)
• Teacher (Diana Anevičiūtė-Valiušaitienė)
• Teacher (Ramūnas Cicėnas)
• Lieutenant-colonel (Vidmantas Fijalkauskas)
• Kosta's neighbor (Arvydas Dapšys)
• Groundskeeper (Algirdas Dainavičius)