Firebird

This film is a bittersweet love story about characters burdened by oppression, but the theme of liberation is as palpable as the sense of loss.

Prior and Zagorodnii are both so watchable, and their chemistry so electric, that it’s easy to get swept away in their romance.

...en finstämd film som borde visas för skolungdomar – inte minst på de platser där dess vackra bilder aldrig får möta en duk.

...story of gay lovers in the Soviet era is Brokeback in the USSR.