Burnt by the Sun (1994)
- Original title
- Утомлённые солнцем
- Directed by
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Genre
- drama film, war film, historical drama
- Country
- Russia, France
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 206 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Red Army officer vacationing with his wife and daughter in the late 1930s Soviet Union sees his peaceful life disrupted when an old friend of his wife arrives unexpectedly. The visit brings hidden tensions to the surface against the backdrop of Stalin's political purges.
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What happens
Burnt by the Sun (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, romanized: Utomlyonnye solntsem, lit. 'wearied by the sun') is a 1994 Russian drama film starring, directed, written, and produced by Nikita Mikhalkov and co-written by Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer, played by Mikhalkov, and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union. While on vacation with his wife, young daughter, and assorted friends and family, things change dramatically for KomDiv Kotov when his wife's old lover, Dmitri, shows up after being away for many years. The film also stars Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhalkov's daughter Nadezhda Mikhalkova. Burnt by the Sun was popular in Russia and received positive reviews in the United States. It won the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and other honours. Burnt by the Sun is one of only four Russian films to have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The other three are War and Peace (1966–1967), Dersu Uzala (1975), and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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