Maksim BRIUS
Максим БРИУС
Maksim BRIOUS
Mikhail VASERBAUM
Михаил ВАССЕРБАУМ
Mikhaïl VASSERBAUM
Russia, 2021, 133mn 
fiction
Hotsunlight
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Солнцепек

 

 Soleil noir / Lumière chaude du soleil

 Solntsepiok

 
Directed by : Maksim BRIUS (Максим БРИУС), Mikhail VASERBAUM (Михаил ВАССЕРБАУМ)
Writing credits : Vladimir IZMAYLOV (Владимир ИЗМАЙЛОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BUKHAROV (Александр БУХАРОВ) ...Vlad
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН) ...Gurevich
Aleksey KRAVCHENKO (Алексей КРАВЧЕНКО) ...Gritsay
Marina DENISOVA (Марина ДЕНИСОВА) ...Nina
 
Cinematography : Vladislav GURCHINE (Владислав ГУРЧИН ), Aleksandr POLAGAEV (Александр ПОЛАГАЕВ)
Production design : Dmitry TSELIKOV (Дмитрий ЦЕЛИКОВ)
Produced by : Sergey SHCHEGLOV (Сергей ЩЕГЛОВ), Irina ZAYTSEVA (Ирина ЗАЙЦЕВА)
Production : Aurum Production, Parity
Release date in Russia : 12/08/2021
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Plot synopsis
Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
 
Commentaries
How Solntsepyok, a brutal 2021 propaganda film, primed Russians for war with Ukraine, theconversation.com, 2022
Maksim Brius, Mikhail Vasserbaum: Hotsunlight (Solntsepek, 2021), Greg DOLGOPOLOV, Kinokultura, 2022
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Semaine du cinéma russe à la cinémathèque d'Alger, Algiers (Algeria), 2023