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Burnt by the Sun is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Nikita Mikhalkov released in USA on 21 april 1995 with Oleg Menshikov
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Утомлённые солнцем
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 21 april 1995
Length 2h28
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
OriginRussie
Themes Films about families, Politique, Prison films, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Rating77%
Burnt by the Sun (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, translit. Utomlyonnye solntsem, literally "wearied by the sun") is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov and Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Like a tragedy by Sophocles, it takes place over the course of one day.
The film received the Grand Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and many other honours.
Synopsis
The Soviet Union, summer 1936. Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia (Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė), and their young daughter Nadia are relaxing in a banya, when they are suddenly interrupted. A peasant from the local collective farm explains that the Soviet Army's tanks are about to crush the wheat harvest as part of general maneuvers. Although annoyed to be bothered during his vacation, Kotov rides on horseback to where the tank crews are confronting outraged peasants.Actors
Oleg Menshikov
(Dimitri (Mitya))
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
(Marusia)
Nikita Mikhalkov
(Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov)
Nadejda Mikhalkova
(Nadya Kotova)
Inna Oulianova
(Olga Nikolaïevna)
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