The Exodus: Burnt by the Sun 2

Utomlyonnye solntsem 2: Predstoyanie

Germany, France, Russia

2010

141 Min

Color

2.35:1

Russian

Currently 2.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Moiseyenko, Aleksandr Novototsky

CAST Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Mikhail Efremov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Tagir Rakhimov

MUSIC Edward Artemyev

Cannes (In Competition), Karlovy Vary (Open Eyes), Melbourne (International Panorama)

Synopsis

A searing, epic tragedy of lives caught up in the violent, unstoppable wheels of an earth-shattering war – the long-awaited sequel to Nikita Mikhalkov’s Academy Award-winning Burnt by the Sun.

1941. Five years have passed since the destinies of General Kotov and his family were irrevocably changed.

At the beginning of the war, Kotov miraculously escapes from the camp to which he was sentenced. Believed dead by the Soviet administration, he enrolls as a private in a voluntary battalion and goes to the front. On the battlefield, he is merciless in combat against the Germans. After being gravely injured, Kotov is repeatedly offered an honourable discharge but, believing his wife Maroussia and his daughter Nadia to have died in a labour camp, chooses to remain with his comrades.

In fact, things are very far from what Kotov believes. The two women are alive. Nadia, now an army nurse and convinced that her father is not dead, searches for him far and wide.

1943. KGB Major Arsentiev – Kotov’s nemesis, the man responsible for his arrest and condemnation – is ordered by Stalin himself to locate the former General. Will Arsentiev find him in a country devastated by war? And why has Stalin ordered him to find Kotov now, after so long? –Cannes Film Festival

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