Mira
Мира
Mira
Мира
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What this film brings
Content barometer
Violence
3/5
Notable
Fear
3/5
Notable tension
Sexuality
0/5
None
Language
1/5
Mild
Narrative complexity
3/5
Complex
Adult themes
0/5
None
Expert review
Firefall (Mira, 2022) is a Russian disaster film aimed at a teen audience, blending science fiction, family drama, and sustained action tension set against a catastrophic meteor shower that devastates Vladivostok. The sensitive content is primarily driven by numerous large-scale urban destruction sequences, including building collapses, explosions, fires, and injured survivors within a continuously chaotic atmosphere. These sequences are intense, realistic, and frequent, underpinned by an emotionally charged narrative centred on a teenage girl grappling with pre-existing pyrophobia, her father's long absence, and the weight of saving her younger brother. Parents can reassure younger viewers by emphasising that the characters protect one another throughout the story and by discussing what it means to face one's fears, though the film is genuinely best suited to teenagers aged 12 and over given its sustained realism and emotional intensity.
Synopsis
Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.
Difficult scenes
The meteor shower strikes Vladivostok in the middle of the film: buildings collapse, explosions tear through the city, and the fifteen-year-old protagonist Lera is knocked to the ground and struck by a vehicle. The sequence is filmed in a realistic and prolonged manner, with bloodied survivors visible in the background and an atmosphere of total catastrophe that may generate significant anxiety in children and preteens. Lera suffers from pyrophobia following a traumatic childhood fire in an elevator. This fear is established at the very beginning of the film and resurfaces repeatedly during the disaster, particularly when she is surrounded by flames and explosions. This psychological dimension may resonate strongly with children who have themselves experienced anxiety linked to fire or accidents. Lera enters a severely damaged building alone to find her eight-year-old half-brother Egor, guided remotely by her father from the space station. Floors collapse, the structure threatens to give way at any moment, and the tension is sustained over a lengthy sequence. This type of scene, combining immediate physical peril with one child's responsibility for another, can be particularly distressing for young viewers. An oil tanker explodes offshore and the threat of a second explosion capable of destroying much of the city is explicitly announced to Lera by her father, who urges her to flee. This information is delivered in a direct and realistic manner, reinforcing the sense of an uncontrollable disaster and leaving little room for emotional decompression for the viewer. Lera's father, Arabov, is established as the sole survivor of the Mira space station after the meteor impact, all of his colleagues having perished. This detail is conveyed without particular dramatic emphasis, but it instills a tone of death and isolation that runs throughout the entire film and may weigh on more sensitive viewers.
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About this title
- Format
- Feature film
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Countries
- Russia
- Original language
- RU
- Directed by
- Dmitry Kiselev
- Main cast
- Anatoliy Belyy, Darya Moroz, Veronika Ustimova, Maksim Lagashkin, Evgeny Egorov, Andrey Smolyakov, Vladimir Ilin, Tatyana Dogileva, Kirill Zaytsev, Alexandr Petrov
- Studios
- Mars Media Entertainment, AMedia, Russian Cinema Fund, Cinema Foundation of Russia
Content barometer
Violence
3/5
Notable
Fear
3/5
Notable tension
Sexuality
0/5
None
Language
1/5
Mild
Narrative complexity
3/5
Complex
Adult themes
0/5
None
Expert review
Firefall (Mira, 2022) is a Russian disaster film aimed at a teen audience, blending science fiction, family drama, and sustained action tension set against a catastrophic meteor shower that devastates Vladivostok. The sensitive content is primarily driven by numerous large-scale urban destruction sequences, including building collapses, explosions, fires, and injured survivors within a continuously chaotic atmosphere. These sequences are intense, realistic, and frequent, underpinned by an emotionally charged narrative centred on a teenage girl grappling with pre-existing pyrophobia, her father's long absence, and the weight of saving her younger brother. Parents can reassure younger viewers by emphasising that the characters protect one another throughout the story and by discussing what it means to face one's fears, though the film is genuinely best suited to teenagers aged 12 and over given its sustained realism and emotional intensity.
Synopsis
Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.
Difficult scenes
The meteor shower strikes Vladivostok in the middle of the film: buildings collapse, explosions tear through the city, and the fifteen-year-old protagonist Lera is knocked to the ground and struck by a vehicle. The sequence is filmed in a realistic and prolonged manner, with bloodied survivors visible in the background and an atmosphere of total catastrophe that may generate significant anxiety in children and preteens. Lera suffers from pyrophobia following a traumatic childhood fire in an elevator. This fear is established at the very beginning of the film and resurfaces repeatedly during the disaster, particularly when she is surrounded by flames and explosions. This psychological dimension may resonate strongly with children who have themselves experienced anxiety linked to fire or accidents. Lera enters a severely damaged building alone to find her eight-year-old half-brother Egor, guided remotely by her father from the space station. Floors collapse, the structure threatens to give way at any moment, and the tension is sustained over a lengthy sequence. This type of scene, combining immediate physical peril with one child's responsibility for another, can be particularly distressing for young viewers. An oil tanker explodes offshore and the threat of a second explosion capable of destroying much of the city is explicitly announced to Lera by her father, who urges her to flee. This information is delivered in a direct and realistic manner, reinforcing the sense of an uncontrollable disaster and leaving little room for emotional decompression for the viewer. Lera's father, Arabov, is established as the sole survivor of the Mira space station after the meteor impact, all of his colleagues having perished. This detail is conveyed without particular dramatic emphasis, but it instills a tone of death and isolation that runs throughout the entire film and may weigh on more sensitive viewers.