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Burnt by the Sun
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1994 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
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*Burnt by the Sun* (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем) is a 1994 historical drama and war film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. The screenwriters were Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, with production handled by Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux. The cast includes Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, and Nadezhda Mikhalkova. Vilen Kalyuta served as director of photography, and Eduard Artemyev composed the music. The film is a co-production from Russia and France, originally in French and Russian.
Set in the Soviet Union in 1936, the narrative focuses on the Great Purge. The film has a runtime of 135 minutes and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. It received the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes. Additional nominations included the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. The work was followed by *Burnt by the Sun 2: Escape*.
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Film · TMDB
6.9Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Cast
- Oleg Menshikov as Dmitry
- Nikita Mikhalkov as Sergey
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Marusya
- Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Nadya
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Vsevolod Konstantinovich
- Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mokhova
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- colonel
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
16,844 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
81%
- Year
- 1994
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 9 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Written by
- Rustam Ibragimbekov , Nikita Mikhalkov
- Produced by
- Leonid Vereshchagin, Armand Barbault, Nikita Mikhalkov, Michel Seydoux
- Starring
- Oleg Menshikov Nikita Mikhalkov Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Nadezhda Mikhalkova
- Cinematography
- Vilen Kalyuta
- Edited by
- Enzo Meniconi
- Music by
- Eduard Artemyev
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Release dates
- 21 May 1994 ( 1994-05-21 ) ( Cannes Film Festival ) 2 November 1994 ( 1994-11-02 ) (Russia)
- Running time
- 135 minutes
- Countries
- Russia, France
- Language
- Russian
- Budget
- $3.6 million
- Box office
- $2.3 million (US)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 7th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- Russian
- Followed by
- Burnt by the Sun 2：Escape
- Main subject
- Great Purge
- Director
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Screenwriter
- Rustam Ibrahimbeyov
- Cast member
- Vladimir Ilyin
- Composer
- Eduard Artemyev
- Cinematographer
- Vilen Kalyuta
- Narrative location
- Soviet Union
- Duration
- 145
- FilmAffinity ID
- 713881
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1994-05-21
- title
- Утомлённые солнцем
- distributed by
- Sony Pictures Classics
- set in period
- 1936
- review score
- 81%
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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