Burnt by the Sun

1995 "A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era."

Burnt by the Sun

7.8 | 2h15m | R | en | Drama

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...

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7.8 | 2h15m | R | en | Drama | More Info

Released: April. 21,1995 | Released Producted By: Canal+ , Studio Trite Country: Russia Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Nikita Mikhalkov , Oleg Menshikov , Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Director

Vladimir Aronin

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Cast

Nikita Mikhalkov

as Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov

БесогонTV «Jedem das Seine / Каждому свое» БесогонTV «Если папа – коррупция, а мама – двуличие, какой у них будет ребенок?» Bondarchuk. Battle БесогонTV «Не всё взбивается в масло» Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus 12 It Doesn't Hurt Me The State Counsellor Dead Man's Bluff

Oleg Menshikov

as Dimitri (Mitya)

Spoiler Your Honor Invasion Psycho Gogol. The Beginning Legend No. 17 What Men Talk About Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus The State Counsellor

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

as Marusia

Stand by Me Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down Maadness Fairy Tenderness Union of Salvation Express 'Moscow-Russia' Sherlock Holmes 30 Beats

Reviews

ravitchn An attempt to show how an ordinary Russian family in the 1930's could be affected by the Stalinist purge of its head; this is certainly a worthwhile goal. But the movie is full of eccentric people, full of sadistic gaiety in the face of what is coming, and is very tedious to watch. I think it is largely a failure and I did not enjoy it one bit.

federovsky You can see why this got the best foreign language Oscar: an anti-communist Russian film - the Americans must have been purring. It's a decent film, basically sentimental (like The Pianist) though nothing to rave about. The General's tender relationship with his wife and child, with which we are beaten around the head for a couple of hours, is far less interesting than the almost shocking idea of post-revolutionary Russia in shimmering colour, where the sun still shines and people still picnic by the river - looking nothing at all like Eisenstein et al had it.Apparently, folks still hung out at the dacha in those days, and here we have the usual genteel bunch in white flannels as if transplanted from a Bergman film. Mikhalkov wants us to know and like them all, but the film would be leaner and better without the extra baggage. Plenty of scenes are vaguely unsatisfactory, like a joke told by someone you don't like. There is a "fireball" motif which doesn't work at all. But the real problem is that all the scene-setting means two hours of beating around the bush (literally, in some scenes), in order to set up the powerful and moving final ten minutes, which has beating of another kind, and which appears to come straight out of the Coen brothers.

koluka2 The events shown in the movie are true. Those who are not Russian i.e. do not live in Russia and do not know the subject well, may rate this movie highly. Let them do this, it's not their fault. They do not know the subject well and anything about the movie director and the environment he was brought up in. They do not know anything of the family that he was born in and brought up as well. All his "masterpieces" created after the Perestroika are 100% show off and conjuncture and considered for the European/American audience; however this fact is clear to mostly Russian audience only. Hopefully, this will be recognized by everybody in the world one day.

poe426 Blind faith in anything is dangerous; it can come back to haunt you in a big way- as it does the character(s) in this movie. I've lived my life questioning everything. Or, as the Greeks put it: "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." It's gotten me this far. Still, to this very day, I know people who have put total, blind faith in institutions as ephemeral as politics and religion. Fool's games, if you ask me, one and all. Like the belief in fairy tales. BURNT BY THE SUN is an object lesson in believing in things you don't really understand. It's okay to think that you've seen the light; it's quite another to be blinded by it.