PREVIEW: Firebird (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Prior (The Theory of Everything), Oleg Zagorodnii (Oboroten v Pogonakh), Diana Pozharskaya (Mystic Game), Jake Thomas Henderson (film debut), Margus Prangel (Vasha), Nicholas Woodeson (Skyfall), Ester Kuntu (The End of the Chain), Kaspar Velberg (Mihkel), Markus Luik (Men at Arms), Nils Mattias Steinberg (Truth and Justice), Henessi Schmidt (Winter), Kaie Kõrb (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peeter Rebane (Tashi Delek!), director, writer, producer; Tom Prior (film debut), writer, producer; Brigita Rozenbrika (Defenders of Riga), producer; Krzysztof A. Janczak (Even Mice Belong in Heaven), composer; Mait Mäekivi (Made in Estonia), cinematographer; Tambet Tasuja (Mother), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1977 Estonia, occupied during the height of the Soviet country’s Communist rule, a young soldier named Sergey (Prior) embarks on a secret love affair with charismatic fighter pilot Roman (Zagorodnii)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This British-Estonian co-production dives into what it was to keep sexualities contained in the Soviet Union, in a romantic tale co-written by its star Tom Prior.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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