Paris is Burning: 30 Years Later
Paris is Burning elevated drag and ballroom into the public consciousness and permanently impacted LGBT culture. However, the performers featured in the documentary didn't reap the rewards of their visibility.
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Vyacheslav Vorobyov is a soldier of the special division of the OMON. By coincidence, after one of the special missions, colleagues and commanders begin to suspect Vyacheslav of the death of a comrade. Wanting to rehabilitate himself in front of them and earn their trust again, the main character is called on an extraordinary dangerous business trip to the city of Nazran. There he meets a girl named Natasha, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Natasha accepts the young man's advances, and they form a relationship. But Slava hides his place of work and the purpose of his business trip. Natasha learns the truth only at the moment when Slava embarks on the most dangerous combat mission of his life.
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Vyacheslav Vorobyov is a soldier of the special division of the OMON. By coincidence, after one of the special missions, colleagues and commanders begin to suspect Vyacheslav of the death of a comrade. Wanting to rehabilitate himself in front of them and earn their trust again, the main character is called on an extraordinary dangerous business trip to the city of Nazran. There he meets a girl named Natasha, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Natasha accepts the young man's advances, and they form a relationship. But Slava hides his place of work and the purpose of his business trip. Natasha learns the truth only at the moment when Slava embarks on the most dangerous combat mission of his life.
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Genre:Drama
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Runtime:96 minutes
Studio:КИНОБЮРО, Cinema Foundation of Russia
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