I see that one of the reviewers entitled his review of Gold Through The Fire an
'Old School Christian Film'. If by old school he meant outdated that is certainly
correct. The Soviet Union fell two years after this film came out in 1987. And
now in 2018 former KGB agent Vladimir Putin rules Russia and the pretenses of
leftwing rhetoric are cast aside. One of the main props to the Putin regime is
the newly invigorated Russian Orthodox church which now happily persecutes
among others gay people.
Young Charles Hallan plays Christian kid Peter Smieslov who with a lot of grit and determination flees the Soviet Union and gets asylum from our Embassy in Finland. He's placed with a Christian family in America. Funny though it's not an Orthodox family or an Eastern Catholic family which is what you would think but an evangelical Protestant family.
Hallan has trouble fitting in, some don't like his proselytizing and make trouble for the school administration. The KGB also takes an interest in him, why God only knows. They want him to come back and renounce his faith. Why him of all the many that fled the Soviet Union? I'm not sure they have enough agents.
All the right evangelical buttons are pushed in this film which is now dated so even church audiences wouldn't find it feasible for showing.
Curiously enough we now have a president whose main desire is to build a wall and keep out the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I wonder how evangelicals square this film with that president.
One of those yearning to breathe free is a young gay man that I know named Alexander Nabatov. Alex this review is dedicated to you and your plight.
This is one flawed and outdated film.
Young Charles Hallan plays Christian kid Peter Smieslov who with a lot of grit and determination flees the Soviet Union and gets asylum from our Embassy in Finland. He's placed with a Christian family in America. Funny though it's not an Orthodox family or an Eastern Catholic family which is what you would think but an evangelical Protestant family.
Hallan has trouble fitting in, some don't like his proselytizing and make trouble for the school administration. The KGB also takes an interest in him, why God only knows. They want him to come back and renounce his faith. Why him of all the many that fled the Soviet Union? I'm not sure they have enough agents.
All the right evangelical buttons are pushed in this film which is now dated so even church audiences wouldn't find it feasible for showing.
Curiously enough we now have a president whose main desire is to build a wall and keep out the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I wonder how evangelicals square this film with that president.
One of those yearning to breathe free is a young gay man that I know named Alexander Nabatov. Alex this review is dedicated to you and your plight.
This is one flawed and outdated film.