Nikita MIKHALKOV Никита МИХАЛКОВ Nikita MIKHALKOV   Russia / France, 1994, 154 mn  Colour, fiction

Burnt by the Sun ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Утомленные солнцем    Soleil trompeur  Utomlyonnye solntsem

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Plot synopsis

In the Soviet Union of 1936 revolutionary hero, Colonel Kotov, is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his wife and their 6 year old daughter. They are surprised by the arrival of the charming Mitia, who exploits his status as an old family friend to carry out a dark mission. Kotov's confidence in himself and his country are at first unshakable; he is unable to comprehend that his peaceful family idyll is about to be destroyed by the brutality of the Stalinist regime.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Speaking in Tongues : Poetic Language in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt by the Sun, Mariya BOSTON, kinokultura.com, 2010

Burnt by the sun, Birgit BEUMERS, I.B.Tauris, 2000

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2013

- Festival du film russe à Quimperlé, Quimperlé (France), 2013

- Festival Ciné sans Frontières, Gujan Mestra (France), 2013

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011

- Retrospective Nikita Mikhalkov in Paris, Paris (France), 2010

- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2009

- Küstendorf International Film Festival, Kustendorf (Serbia), 2009

- Damascus International Film Festival, Damascus (Syria), 2009

- Lecce European Film Festival, Lecce (Italy), 2008

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 1997

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1994

- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1994-08-31

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