Sunstroke (2014 film)
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| Directed by | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Produced by | Leonid Vereshchagin |
| Screenplay by | Vladimir Moiseyenko Nikita Mikhalkov Aleksandr Adabashyan |
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Sunstroke and Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin |
| Starring | Mārtiņš Kalita Victoria Solovyova Miloš Biković |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography | Vladislav Opelyants |
| Edited by | Svetolik Zajc |
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TriTe
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| Distributed by | DreamTeam Media |
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180 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $21 million |
| Box office | $1,693,797 |
Sunstroke (Russian: Солнечный удар; translit. Solnechnyy udar) is a 2014 drama film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It is set in Russia during the Red Terror in 1920 and in 1907, and is loosely based on the story Sunstroke and the book Cursed Days by Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
The story is set in a prisoner-of-war camp in November 1920, in the Crimea, after the evacuation of the White Army, with several dozen thousand of White officers left behind on the peninsula. The officers are unaware of their impending doom, waiting for their fate to be decided by the Red Army officials. One of them — an unnamed poruchik (Mārtiņš Kalita) — is haunted by the memories of a dramatic and brief love affair occurred in 1907, and tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame. His musing comes to an end when all the White officers board an old barge, which the Reds take down in the Black Sea, and all officers perish.
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The musical score for Sunstroke was composed by Eduard Artemyev, who has collaborated with Mikhalkov on numerous movies (At Home Among Strangers, An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia, etc.).
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