Birds of Paradise (2008)

2.8/10 94 min Drama

Overview

The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.

Cast

Andrey Kuzichev

Сергей Голобородько

Oksana Akinshina

Oleg Yankovskiy

Egor Pazenko

Serhii Romaniuk

Vadym Skurativskyi

Valentyn Tomusiak

Vitold Janpavlis

Svitlana Shtanko

Sergey Siplivyy

Alla Sergiyko

Oleksandr Kryzhanivskyi

Oleg Maslennikov

Mariia Mykolaichuk

Leonid Titov

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