Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun
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Actor: Ion Aksenti, Nina Arkhipova, Nino Abuladze, T. Akopova, Vladimir Belousov (II)
Primary Contributor: Ingeborga Dapkunaite
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Burnt by the Sun

Movie Review: Highest Quality
Summary: 5 Stars

This excellent movie is beautifully photographed, deeply affecting, intricate but clear, and it illustrates the monstrous abuse a totalitarian government perpetrates upon its citizens and their heroic battles against it. I highly recommend it.

Summary of Burnt by the Sun

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

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