Luisa, whose romantic interest in Sergey goes unreciprocated, is disappointed as well in his lack of military ambition. Breaking curfew, the disobedient trio foreshadows the triangle that will define the drama. He enjoys midnight swims with fellow Russian soldier Volodja (Jake Thomas Henderson) and Luisa (Diana Pozharskaya), a native Estonian who works in the office of the colonel (a very good Nicholas Woodeson). At the Haapsalu Air Force Base in Soviet-occupied Estonia, Sergey is a private with just a few weeks left to his mandatory service. Prior plays a character based on Fetisov, who died in 2017, precisely 40 years after the movie’s main action begins. There’s so much potential heart and heartbreak in Firebird’s tale of forbidden passion that the screenplay and the cautious pacing become frustrating with every ache measured and spelled out, the film’s dogged striving for poetry too often leaves it feeling disappointingly prosaic.Ĭast: Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Diana Pozharskaya Turning from music videos and concert films to tell this true story in his first narrative feature, Rebane has created an old-school melodrama that aims for a Sirkian sheen, its visuals sumptuous and its clinches glossily, tastefully steamy. Adapting The Story of Roman, a memoir by Russian actor Sergey Fetisov, director Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior, who also stars, trace the fits and starts of a love affair that unfolds under such trying circumstances. And if you were a high-profile military officer and under the watchful eye of the KGB, the danger of being punished was that much greater. In the Soviet Union of the late ’70s and early ’80s, the setting of Firebird, consensual sex between men was a crime punishable by five years of hard labor.
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