Fire

Fire (2020) is a Russian action drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexei Nuzhnyi. An aerial firefighting crew battles wildfires sweeping through the forests outside Moscow — 131 tense minutes.

Veteran crew chief Andrey Pavlovich is handed a rookie, Roman, right as conditions worsen. Konstantin Khabensky, Andrei Smolyakov, Ivan Yankovsky, and Tikhon Zhiznevsky play men for whom daily contact with death has long stopped being extraordinary. The friction between old and new runs parallel to the fire itself, and neither gets clean resolution.

The film's quiet argument: working that close to disaster doesn't make people heroes. It makes them very tired. Watch Fire (2020) online on iFILM.