Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun
Film poster
Directed byNikita Mikhalkov
Written byRustam Ibragimbekov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Produced byLeonid Vereshchagin
Armand Barbault
Nikita Mikhalkov
Michel Seydoux
Starring
CinematographyVilen Kalyuta
Edited byEnzo Meniconi
Music byEduard Artemyev
Distributed bySony Pictures Classics
Release dates
Running time
135 minutes
CountriesRussia
France
LanguageRussian
Budget$3.6 million[1]
Box office$2.3 million (US)[2]

Burnt by the Sun (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, translit. Utomlyonnye solntsem, literally "wearied by the sun") is a 1994 Russian drama film starring, directed, written, and produced by Nikita Mikhalkov and co-written by Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer, played by Mikhalkov, and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union. While on vacation with his wife, young daughter, and assorted friends and family, things change dramatically for Colonel Kotov when his wife's old lover, Dmitri, shows up after being away for many years. The film also stars Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhalkov's daughter Nadezhda Mikhalkova.

Burnt by the Sun was popular in Russia and received positive reviews in the United States. It won the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and other honours.

  1. ^ Beumers 2000, p. xii.
  2. ^ "Burnt by the Sun". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 9 September 2016.