Burnt By The Sun
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| Directed by | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Produced by | Nikita Mikhalkov Michel Seydoux |
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Rustam Ibragimbekov Nikita Mikhalkov |
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| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography | Vilen Kalyuta |
| Edited by | Enzo Meniconi |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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135 minutes |
| Country | Russia France |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $3.6 million |
| Box office | $2.3 million (US) |
Burnt by the Sun (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, translit. Utomlyonnye solntsem, literally "wearied by the sun") is a 1994 film by Russian director and screenwriter Nikita Mikhalkov and 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. It also stars Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhalkov's daughter Nadezhda Mikhalkova.
The film achieved a high degree of popularity in Russia and positive reviews in the United States. It received the Grand Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and other honours.
In the summer of 1936 in the Soviet Union, Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia and their young daughter Nadia are relaxing in a banya when a peasant from the local collective farm frantically tells them the Soviet Army's tanks are about to crush the wheat harvest as part of general maneuvers. Kotov rides out to order the tank officer to halt. Kotov carries authority as a senior Old Bolshevik and legendary hero of the Russian Civil War, and is also very popular with the common people and local villagers.
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