Firebird 2024
“Firebird” is released, the film that the Russian media accused of “shaming Moscow” - Infobae
The Russian media has accused "Firebird", the film, of "shaming Moscow". Tom Prior (" Kingsman : The Secret Service") is the star of this Estonian Peeter-Rebane work about the love story between a young fighter pilot and an Estonian soldier during the Cold War. It was criticized in Russia as violating laws against "homosexual propagandist" which have been in place since 2013.
21 Abr, 2022 01:15 p.m. ESTCompartirCompartir articuloCopiar enlaceFacebookTwitterWhatsappLinkedinTelegramE-mail"An Estonian, a British and a Ukrainian shame Moscow," one Russian media outlet condemned "Firebird", which is released in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.In 1977, when Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, Russian actor Sergey Fetisov arrived at a military base to perform his military service. He was eager to complete the process of settling in Moscow to begin his theater career. He wished his stay in Moscow would be permanent, but he was suddenly transformed by a love affair with a pilot. His memoir, History of Roman tells this essential moment in Roman's life. It will be adapted to the screen in Firebird. The film opens in the United Kingdom on Friday, April 22, and in the United States on Tuesday, 29. [More series that we recommend on What Can I watch] The British Tom Prior (Kingsman The Secret Service, The Theory of Everything), and the Ukrainian Oleg Zgorodnii, who is currently in Kiev and works as a café while waiting to be summoned to fight, are the stars of this Estonian Peeter Rebanne's feature debut, which won six awards at festivals. She was praised in London at BFI Flare and Los Angeles' Outfest, as well as in Toronto, during the Inside Out Film Festival. Moscow, however, was not one of them. Although homosexual relationships ceased to illegal in Russia in 1992, stigma and discrimination remain. The fact that in 2013, laws were passed against "homosexual propagandists" remain in force despite being rejected and declared discriminatory in 2017 by the European Court of Human Rights. Prior was surprised when the Moscow Film Festival chose Firebird. We thought, "Wow, this is real progress, we are about to see real change in Russia’s political position towards its LGBTQ+ community." The state prosecutor received a complaint after the first screening. The letter said that the film should be removed from the festival.
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