| Burnt by the Sun - Utomlyonnye solntsem (1995)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Ingeborga Dapkunaite |
Marusia
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| Oleg Menchikov |
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| Nadya Mikhalkov |
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| Nikita Mikhalkov |
Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
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| Oleg Menshikov |
Dimitri (Mitya)
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| Nadezhda Mikhalkova |
Nadya
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| André Oumansky |
Philippe
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| Vyacheslav Tikhonov |
Vsevolod
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| Svetlana Kryuchkova |
Mokhava
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| Vladimir Ilyin |
Kirik
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| Alla A. Kazanskaya |
Lidiya Stepanovna
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| Nina Arkhipova |
Yelena Mikhajlovna
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| Nino Abuladze |
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| Plot |
| Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936, and Stalin's purges are in full swing. Despite his reputation and revolutionary record, Sergei Kotov (Mikhalkov) seems to be on the dictator's hit list, as indicated by the insulting arrival of his wife's former lover, an agent of government police. Mikhalkov treats all this as a matter of personal and political intrigue dropping like rotting fruit in the middle of a sunny and loving period for the Kotov clan. The director ingeniously understates the mounting threat until one begins to realize that the Kotovs are only geographically distant from the long, bloody reach of Stalin. By the time we do realize it, the shock of change is almost unbearable. A very fine movie all around, though Mikhalkov's touches of magic realism (particularly the presence of a golden orb that keeps popping into the action) are distracting and a subject of controversy among viewers. --Tom Keogh |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Foreign |
| Director |
Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Producer |
Nikita Mikhalkov; Michel Seydoux |
| Writer |
Rustam Ibragimbekov; Nikita Mikhalkov |
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| Studio |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
Russian |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
134 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
4/21/1995 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
583 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/3/2006 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.66:1 Color |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396009752 |
| Chapters |
28 |
| Release Date |
7/15/2003 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Features Not Specified
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