Fire (2020 film)

Fire (Russian: Огонь, romanized: Ogon) is a 2020 Russian disaster film directed by Aleksey Nuzhnyy. A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers of the Aerial Forest Protection Service "Avialesookhrana" and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who resist the merciless elements and turn out to be the only hope of people in trouble. The film includes real footage of terrible forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.[2][3][4]

Fire
Directed byAleksey Nuzhnyy (ru)
Produced by
  • Leonid Vereshchagin (ru)
  • Anton Zlatopolskiy (ru)
  • Rafael Minasbekyan
  • Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Aleksey Nuzhnyy
  • Sergey Kornikhin
Written by
  • Nikolay Kulikov
  • Aleksey Nuzhnyy
  • Konstantin Mayer
Starring
Music byKirill Borodulev
CinematographyMikhail Milashin
Edited byAvet Hovhannisyan
Production
company
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • December 24, 2020 (2020-12-24) (Russia)
Running time
131 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget₽550 million
Box office
  • ₽726.3 million
  • $3.520 million (Russia/CIS)[1]

It was theatrically released in Russia on December 24, 2020 by Central Partnership. The film grossed over 600 million rubles compared to a production budget of 550 million rubles and was a commercial success.

Plot

The film tells about firefighters and rescuers who stand in the way of a cruel element.[5]

Cast
  • Konstantin Khabenskiy as Andrey Pavlovich Sokolov
  • Ivan Yankovskiy as Roman Ilyin
  • Stasya Miloslavskaya as Ekaterina 'Katya' Sokolova
  • Anton Bogdanov as Konstantin 'Kostik' Zhuravel
  • Viktor Dobronravov as Pyotr Velichuk
  • Roman Kurtsyn as Sergey 'Seryoga' Zotov
  • Tikhon Zhiznevskiy as Maksim Shustov
  • Irina Gorbacheva as Zoya, a woman in labor
  • Yuriy Kuznetsov as Georgich
  • Tatyana Bedova as Georgich's wife
  • Viktor Sukhorukov as a pilot Okopych
  • Andrey Smolyakov as Vladimir Gromov
  • Aleksandr Oblasov as Valera, observer pilot
  • Boris Dergachev as Pavel Borisov

Production

The scene of extinguishing a forest fire, in which the Beriev Be-200 seaplane was involved, was filmed simultaneously with six cameras.

Filming

Principal photography began from May to September 2019 in the Republic of Karelia forests and the Moscow Oblast, in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Oblast, and in the city of Vladimir, Vladimir Oblast. The film crew was consulted by specialists from the MChS and the Aerial Forest Protection Service in Siberia, who also provided unique air transport: Mil Mi-8 helicopters participated in the filming, Ilyushin Il-62, Antonov An-26 aircraft and multipurpose Beriev Be-200.

The ground photographs were taken by real rescuers and firefighters from the MChS and the Federal Agency for Forestry's Aerial Forest Protection Service.

References
  1. "Огонь (2020) - кассовые сборы" [Fire (2020 film) - Box Office Gross]. KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  2. Горит экран пожаром новым
  3. Настоящий «Огонь»: 10 пламенных фактов о фильме-катастрофе
  4. Главные кинопремьеры недели по версии «Газеты.Ru»
  5. Огонь, 2020
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