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Burnt by the Sun

Utomlennye solntsem (Burnt By the Sun)

1994

Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova ...

7.5

4,797

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"With its Chekhovian sense of a brutal future encroaching on an elegant, dying world, 'Burnt by the Sun' matches the enduring power of Mr. Mikhalkov's best works"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Mikhalkov is a quintessentially Russian director: awkwardly, theatrically expansive, somewhat lugubrious even in the midst of an idyll, but unafraid of ideas and complexity"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Mikhalkov is a good director and 'Burnt by the Sun' is not without interest, but there is little original in it (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Mikhalkov, who was one of the few filmmakers to thrive during the Soviet regime, allows us to gaze with fear and horror upon the rise of a terrorist state"	POS
United Kingdom	Empire	"The superb ensemble acting and powerful imagery will linger in the mind longer than the leisurely paced plot (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Steven Gaydos Variety	"Film unwinds in a leisurely fashion, but achieves tragic grandeur and emotional payoff that make it an engrossing experience"	POS

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