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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

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Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.

06-26-2020
2h 3m
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
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Main Cast

Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination; the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002); and the comedy series Slings & Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award. In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and the comedy-drama The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood's new "it girl[1][2] and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Rising Star. After a hiatus, McAdams gained further prominence starring in the films The Time Traveller's Wife (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). For her portrayal of journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight (2015), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016) and its sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), the comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), and the comedy-drama Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). On television, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective (2015), earning a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane (2024), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel McAdams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former Saturday Night Live repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to Saturday Night Live later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including Strangers with Candy, Grace Under Fire and Living Single during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family The Oblongs. In 1995 he became a feature cast member at Saturday Night Live during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season. However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He's appeared in every Saturday Night Live movie since his premiere on the show in 1995. In 2002 he left  Saturday Night Live and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000 he married and now lives in L.A.

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Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist who holds Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years. Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele (1982–87). After Remington Steele, Brosnan took the lead in many films such as Dante's Peak and The Thomas Crown Affair. In 1995, he became the fifth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series, starring in four films between 1995 and 2002. He also provided his voice and likeness to Bond in the 2004 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. Since playing Bond, he has starred in such successes as The Matador (nominated for a Golden Globe, 2005), Mamma Mia! (National Movie Award, 2008), and The Ghost Writer (2010). In 1996, along with Beau St. Clair, Brosnan formed Irish DreamTime, a Los Angeles-based production company. In later years, he has become known for his charitable work and environmental activism. He was married to Australian actress Cassandra Harris from 1980 until her death in 1991. He married American journalist and author Keely Shaye Smith in 2001, becoming an American citizen in 2004.

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Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens

Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born October 10, 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film The Guest (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama Marshall (2017), Charles Dickens in the biographical drama The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) and Russian Eurovision singer Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020). From 2017 to 2019, he starred as David Haller in the critically acclaimed FX series Legion. In 2018, he starred in the Netflix horror-thriller Apostle.

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Jamie Demetriou

Jamie Demetriou

James Demetriou is an English-Cypriot comedian, actor, and screenwriter known for his roles as creator, writer and lead actor in the BAFTA nominated Stath Lets Flats, as well as his acting role in Fleabag.

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Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson has lived in Iceland for most of his life and works full time as an actor. He does a lot of theatre work as well as films and he is one of the founders of the Vesturport theatre company, which has performed around the world.

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Melissanthi Mahut

Melissanthi Mahut

Melissanthi Mahut (Greek: Μελισσάνθη Μάχουτ; born September 20, 1988) is a Canadian and Greek actress. Mahut was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Greece. Her father is a Quebecois Canadian, while her mother is Greek. She attended the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and later went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She graduated at RADA with a BA degree in Acting in 2012. She is known for her role as Kassandra in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and for playing Mita Xenakis in the Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

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Graham Norton

Graham Norton

Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Previously shown on BBC Two, it took the prestigious Friday night slot on BBC One from Jonathan Ross in 2010. He also presents on BBC Radio 2 and is the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest, which led Hot Press to describe him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan". Norton is known for his innuendo-laden dialogue and flamboyant presentation style. In 2012, he sold his production company, So Television, to ITV for around £17 million.

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Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Their earliest roles included a part on Barney & Friends, before they became better known for their starring roles in the Camp Rock movies, as Sonny Munroe in Sonny with a Chance, and as the star of the 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. They are also involved in philanthropic activities through charity work and various social and environmental causes. As a solo musical artist, Lovato released their debut album Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies in the first week. It has since sold over 500,000 records in the United States and got certified Gold by RIAA. Lovato stated in an interview that the album was recorded in ten days. Lovato released their second album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 108,000 copies in the first week. Description above from the Wikipedia Demi Lovato, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (born 26 February 1980) is an Icelandic actor known for his roles in the TV series Game of Thrones (2016), Vikings: Valhalla (2022), and Succession (2023), and in the films Atomic Blonde (2017) and Alpha (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bobby Lockwood

Bobby Lockwood

Bobby Lockwood (born 24 May 1993) is an English actor. In 2006, when he was twelve, he appeared in the BBC series Waterloo Road. He had a leading role in the CBBC show Wolfblood, for which he won a British Academy Children's Award as best performer. In 2014 Lockwood won the BBC One athletics show Tumble

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Mikael Persbrandt

Mikael Persbrandt

Mikael Åke Persbrandt, born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of movies. He is internationally known for his starring role in the Academy Award-winning feature, In a Better World, directed by Susanne Bier. His performance earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. Other parts include the role of Carl Hamilton from the novels by Jan Guillou, Beorn in The Hobbit, as well as Jakob Nyman in the English TV series Sex Education. He has performed onstage with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and in numerous film and TV roles. Persbrandt is well known for his role as the hardboiled police inspector Gunvald Larsson, in the Beck series of films. He won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a leading role twice, the first in 2009 for Everlasting Moments and the second in 2014 for Nobody Owns Me. In 2015, Persbrandt reported that he would quit starring in his popular role of Gunvald Larsson. In 2019, Persbrandt began playing Jakob Nyman in the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education. He was a leading actor in the film The Salvation.

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Jon Kortajarena

Jon Kortajarena

Jon Kortajarena Redruello (born 19 May 1985) is a Spanish model and actor. He has landed advertising campaigns for Just Cavalli, Versace, Giorgio Armani, Bally, Etro, Trussardi, Diesel, Mangano, Lagerfeld, Pepe Jeans but notably H&M, Zara, Guess and Tom Ford for his consecutive seasons with the brands. On 26 June 2009, Forbes ranked Jon Kortajarena 8th in The World's 10 Most Successful Male Models.

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Elin Petersdottir

Elin Petersdottir

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Björn Stefánsson

Björn Stefánsson

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Tómas Lemarquis

Tómas Lemarquis

Tómas Lemarquis (born August 3, 1977) is a French–Icelandic actor. Lemarquis was born in Reykjavík, the son of an Icelandic mother and a French father, Gérard Lemarquis, who is a schoolteacher. His most distinguishing physical feature—a complete lack of hair of any kind—is the result of alopecia universalis, which made him completely hairless by the age of 14. He grew up between Iceland and France, and studied theater at the Cours Florent in Paris, where he was a classmate of actress Audrey Tautou. He also attended the Reykjavík School of Fine Arts in Iceland. Lemarquis is possibly best known for his starring role in the 2003 Icelandic film Nói Albínói (e. Noi the Albino). Lemarquis' played a lead role in the 2018 Berlinale Film Festival winner, Touch Me Not. He has also appeared in films such as Snowpiercer, X-Men: Apocalypse and Blade Runner 2049.

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Hlynur Þorsteinsson

Hlynur Þorsteinsson

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Heidi Niemi

Heidi Niemi

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Laura Hayden

Laura Hayden

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Joshua Rumble

Joshua Rumble

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Harry Balazs

Harry Balazs

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Jackson Couzens

Jackson Couzens

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Halldora Thoell

Halldora Thoell

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Alfie Melia

Alfie Melia

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Mark Adams

Mark Adams

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Zack Propert

Zack Propert

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Milan van Weelden

Milan van Weelden

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Junior Delius

Junior Delius

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Daniela Tocari

Daniela Tocari

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Tharan Sivapatham

Tharan Sivapatham

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Eveline Suter

Eveline Suter

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Tommy Ashby

Tommy Ashby

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Lydia Clowes

Lydia Clowes

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Salvador Sobral

Salvador Sobral

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John Lundvik

John Lundvik

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Anna Odobescu

Anna Odobescu

Anna Odobescu (b. 3 November 1991) is a Moldovan singer and actress. She represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Stay" in 2019.

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Bilal Hassani

Bilal Hassani

Bilal Hassani (Arabic: بلال حسني, romanized: Bilāl Ḥasnī; born 9 September 1999) is a French singer-songwriter and YouTuber. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Roi", finishing in 16th place. Hassani was born in Orsay, Paris Region to a Moroccan family from Casablanca. His mother is a French citizen, while his father lives in Singapore. He has an older brother, Taha, who was born in 1995. He obtained his literary baccalaureate in 2017. In 2005, at the age of five, Hassani began singing lessons. In 2015, encouraged by his friend Nemo Schiffman, a finalist of the first season, Hassani participated in the second season of The Voice Kids and introduced himself in the blind auditions by singing a cover of "Rise Like a Phoenix" by Conchita Wurst, a singer whom he admires. He joined the team of judge Patrick Fiori. He was eliminated during the battle rounds by Swany Patrac. In 2018, the LGBT magazine Têtu designated Hassani as one of the "30 LGBT+ [people] who move France". The magazine described him as "an icon for French LGBT+ youth". On 6 December 2018, Hassani was announced to be among the 18 candidates participating in Destination Eurovision, the French national selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest which was broadcast on France 2, with this edition choosing the representative of France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, which took place in Tel Aviv, Israel in May 2019. On 20 December 2018, an excerpt from his song for the competition was released, the song titled "Roi" and written with the duo and 2018 winner of Destination Eurovision Madame Monsieur. The song was described to be about self-acceptance. On 4 January 2019, "Roi" was made available on all music platforms, and by 14 January, it had exceeded 3 million views. The newspaper Le Monde wrote that Hassani "leaves no one indifferent". The initial front runner to represent France at Eurovision, Hassani began a media tour for Destination Eurovision on media outlets such as NRJ, Quotidien, and France Inter. On 12 January 2019, he won the semi-final by winning 58 out of 60 points awarded by the international jury, and winning 57 points (the highest score) from the French public. He totaled 115 points and qualified for the final, alongside Chimène Badi (66 points), Silvàn Areg (59 points) and Aysat (40 points). He won the final on 26 January 2019, with a total of 200 points including 150 of the French public while he was ranked fifth with the International Jury vote, with 50 points. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 final, in Israel, Hassani performed the song "Roi", and placed 16th, with 105 points. He made a cameo appearance in the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. In 2024 he had an acting role in Alexis Langlois's feature film Queens of Drama (Les Reines de la drame). On 23 June 2017, Hassani publicly came out as part of the LGBTQ+ community, the day before he attended the Paris Pride. Hassani is genderqueer and is at ease with both she and he pronouns. ... Source: Article "Bilal Hassani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Loreen

Loreen

Lorine Talhaoui, known as Loreen, is a music artist and music composer from Sweden with Moroccan parents. She won Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023. Loreen is also an actress and voice actress. She has previously worked as a TV presenter and TV producer.

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Jessy Matador

Jessy Matador

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Alexander Rybak

Alexander Rybak

Alexander Igorevich Rybak or Alyaxandr Iharavich Rybak is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist, author and actor. Based in Los Angeles, Rybak extensively worked on television programs and on tours in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe throughout the early 2010s.

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Jamala

Jamala

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Elina Nechayeva

Elina Nechayeva

Elina Nechayeva (born November 10, 1991) is an Estonian soprano. She rose to fame by participating in the Estonian talent show Klassikatähed in 2014. In 2018, she won Eesti Laul (Estonian Song) with the song "La Forza" and went on to represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Netta

Netta

Netta Barzilai also known mononymously as Netta, is an Israeli singer. After winning the fifth season of HaKokhav HaBa, she earned the right to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. On 12 May 2018, she won the contest, held in Lisbon, Portugal, with her song "Toy", marking Israel's fourth win in the Eurovision Song Contest (after 1978, 1979, and 1998).

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Sophia-Grace Donnelly

Sophia-Grace Donnelly

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Spike Jefferson

Spike Jefferson

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
David Dobkin
Writers:
Will Ferrell, Harper Steele
Production:
Gary Sanchez Productions

Key Crew

Songs:
Demi Lovato
Makeup & Hair:
Faye De Bremaeker
Makeup Artist:
Ainslie Currie
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
David Giammarco
Producer:
Jessica Elbaum

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en