Burnt by the Sun

Utomlyonnye solntsem

France, Russia

1994

135 Min

Color

1.66:1

French, Russian

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Nikita Mikhalkov, Michel Seydoux

SCR Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov

CAST Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, André Oumansky

MUSIC Eduard Artemyev

Cannes (In Competition): Grand Prix, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Toronto

Synopsis

Russia, 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. –IMDb

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Born to a family of celebrated painters and poets, Muscovite Nikita Mikhalkov is the younger brother of director Andrei Konchalovsky. An actor in theater and films since the age of 16 (including his brother’s Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo and Siberiade), Mikhalkov also studied cinema at Moscow’s State Film School in the 1960s. He debuted as a director in 1970 with his diploma film A Quiet Day at the End of the War. He then returned to acting for a few years, finally unveiling his first full-length feature, Svoy Sredi Chuzhikh, in 1973. An avowed idolater of playwright Anton Chekhov, Mikhalkov adapted Chekhov’s very first play, Platonov, into the autumnal dramatic film An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977). Mikhalkov won several awards for this effort, and would do so again for his subsequent films Oblomov (1980) and the Italian-produced Oci Ciornie (Dark Eyes, 1987). In 1995, a breathless Mikhalkov, in the company of his beaming… read more

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Gulazhar

8Sep10

Oleg Menshikov's performance here is definitely one of the strongest actor performances ever...Just got under my skin

deltics

28Jun10

A slow burn... a story about a time and a man, not an event or an incident. Thoroughly engaging and touching performances.

Guy Sands

12Feb10

Best child actor ever?

Robert W Peabody III

30Oct09

Burnt by the Sun (1994) Utomlyonnye solntsem 135 Min What is wrong with this picture *:* DIR *Nikita Mikhalkov* PROD *Nikita Mikhalkov* SCR *Nikita Mikhalkov* CAST *Nikita Mikhalkov*, Nadezhda Mikhalkova,