The Red Poet - Season 1

First aired: 1/9/2024 10 episodes
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Episodes

1. Episode 1

Aired: 1/9/2024

A boy named Kosta is born. At 9, his father compels him to quit school and work for the family pottery. Undiscouraged, Kosta studies nightly, nurturing a love for literature, especially poetry and communism.

2. Episode 2

Aired: 1/10/2024

Kosta and friends escape trouble with drunk police. Later, he attends a Communist Party Congress in Dresden but is arrested at the Austrian border on his return. After 3 months, Kosta returns home to find an army service invitation.

3. Episode 3

Aired: 1/11/2024

After facing harassment by the army corporal, Kosta visits Skopje often to organize a poetry reading, facing opposition from authorities. He befriends Antun Kolendic. The police are informed that Kosta leads the local Communist movement.

4. Episode 4

Aired: 1/12/2024

During a picnic, police spoil the fun for Kosta and friends. Heading home, Kosta's friend Stevan Galogaza arrives, but as agents and police approach, both Stevan and Kosta are arrested.

5. Episode 5

Aired: 1/15/2024

Kosta endures torture in prison. After 6 months, he's transported for a tense trial in Zagreb, where he and Stevan Galogaza are sentenced to 4 years in jail.

6. Episode 6

Aired: 1/16/2024

Imprisoned Kosta discusses language, literature, and politics. Upon release, he reunites with Nevena, discovering Gancho's death. During a Party writers' clash, Kosta defies orders by refusing to attack Miroslav Krlezha.

7. Episode 7

Aired: 1/17/2024

Tito orders to ban Kosta from the party. Despite the separation, Kosta asks Nevena to join him in Skopje, but she stays in Veles. They meet regularly, attend the first Macedonian play, motivating Kosta to finish his Macedonian poems.

8. Episode 8

Aired: 1/18/2024

Kosta works in Belgrade, but is forced to go back home in Veles. Then, he goes to Samobor near Zagreb, where 4000 copies of his poems are printed and distributed illegally. Unfortunately, the authorities seize all of them.

9. Episode 9

Aired: 1/19/2024

10. Episode 10

Aired: 1/22/2024