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Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun
Burnt by the Sun Poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Produced by Nikita Mikhalkov
Michel Seydoux
Written by Rustam Ibragimbekov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring
Music by Eduard Artemyev
Cinematography Vilen Kalyuta
Edited by Enzo Meniconi
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release date
  • 21 May 1994 (1994-05-21) (Cannes))
Running time
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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