Burnt by the Sun ( Utomlyonnye solntsem ) ( Soleil trompeur )

Burnt by the Sun (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Utomlyonnye solntsem
Alternate Title: Soleil trompeur
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
146 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Nikita Mikhalkov

Written By:
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Nikita Mikhalkov

Actors:
Oleg Menshikov ..... Dimitri (Mitya)
Nikita Mikhalkov ..... Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
Ingeborga Dapkunaite ..... Marusia
Nadezhda Mikhalkova ..... Nadya
André Oumansky ..... Philippe
Vyacheslav Tikhonov ..... Vsevolod
Svetlana Kryuchkova ..... Mokhova
Vladimir Ilyin ..... Kirik
Alla A. Kazanskaya ..... Lidiya Stepanovna
Nina Arkhipova ..... Yelena Mikhajlovna
Avangard Leontyev ..... Chauffeur
Inna Ulyanova ..... Olga Nikolayevna
Lyubov Rudneva ..... Lyuba
Vladimir Ryabov ..... NKVD officer
Vladimir Belousov ..... NKVD man #1

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...

Stalinist Russia, circa 1930, is recreated in this Russian-French film that focuses on a small, elite gathering of family and friends who appreciate the idealism of Stalin's visions because they do not have to experience its darker side of gulags and purges. The story focuses upon a single day in Soviet revolutionary hero Serguei Kotov's life. Kotov lives an idyllic country life with his lovely wife Maroussia, and their feisty daughter Nadia. He is highly respected by the locals. On this day, the Kotovs are visited by the roguishly handsome Dimitri, who was a former lover of Maroussia. Dimitri is on a dark mission that may have profound effects on Kotov's peaceful, happy, and idealistic existence.

In the Soviet Union during the summer of 1936, Army commander Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov), his wife, Marusia (Ingeborga Dapkounaite) and his daughter, Nadya (Nadezhda Mikhalkova), are enjoying their family vacation. Marusia's lost love, Mitya (Oleg Menchikov), missing for 13 years, suddenly shows up at her family's dacha. Although he's greeted warmly, Mitya has a secret agenda: to arrest Kotov for his part in a nonexistent conspiracy to assassinate Stalin.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 20 August, 2008.

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