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Burnt By The Sun Reviews

1994

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The year is 1936 and Colonel Kotov, his wife Maroussia and their young daughter Nadia are leading a happy life in their country home. That is, until Dimitri, a man on an evil mission, enters their lives. Read more

Starring	Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menchikov
Director	Nikita Mikhalkov
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Complex and tragic, at times almost Chekhovian, evocation of an ambiguous time, of unthinking brutality darkening a summer landscape.
- 32446
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Tough! Beautiful! Horrendous!
  
  This is a truly excellent film! But really quite tough to take. I saw it on a Friday night before I was supposed to go out. I went home instead, feeling like I ... read more »
  
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  - Cambridge
  - 13 Aug 2005 at 01:38
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  - 0
  worth it in the end
  
  wonderful film if you stick with it (it helps if you know a bit of the history of the time)
  
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- - submarina
  - 1 review
  - 14 Apr 2012 at 13:14
- - 2
  - 9
  Really bad
  
  the film started off well (hence the one star) but soon disintegrated into pointless meaningless farce. I ended up watching it on fast forward just to see if ... read more »
  
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  - OXON
  - 08 Nov 2010 at 08:11
- - 3
  - 0
  Multi-layered masterpiece
  
  This film just got better and better.. so much going on, the filming was very special.. the type of film that one will think of many times in the future as ... read more »
  
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  - Wirral
  - 02 Jun 2010 at 07:53
- - 5
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  Engaging, haunting and rich.
  
  I added this film to my list for fairly vacuous reasons - I'd read its name somewhere while thinking 'Russian movies are awesome' and looking for ... read more »
  
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- - Mysterioso
  - 5 reviews
  - Belfast
  - 09 Mar 2010 at 13:25
- - 3
  - 2
  slow and annoying
  
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  I did not like the film. There was nothing there to like. I did not like the acting and the actors. I did not like the directorship. I did not like the music. ... read more »
  
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- - rafi
  - 34 reviews
  - Beverley
  - 08 Nov 2009 at 21:26
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  A star is born
  
  I loved this film !
  
  I wont spoil it for you by explaining the story, as you can get a good idea by reading other reviews here. The film alone is ... read more »
  
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- - Karamac
  - 8 reviews
  - Midlothian
  - 03 Nov 2009 at 16:16
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  Uncle Joe ruins the bank holiday
  
  Ageing revolutionary hero, Colonel Kotov is spending a lazy summer day with his wife, young daughter, assorted friends and relatives. This Checkovian idyll is ... read more »
  
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- - Oldbloke
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  - Sidmouth
  - 16 Oct 2009 at 09:13
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  Interesting
  
  A well made, realistic protrayal of Stalinist Russia.
  
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  - London
  - 31 Jul 2009 at 13:22
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  Burnt By the Sun
  
  Beautifully filmed showing the shimmering heat of a Russian summer and oppression building up with Stalin's power. Loved it and the little girl was ... read more »
  
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- - Marguerite
  - 5 reviews
  - Kingston surrey
  - 20 Jul 2009 at 10:10
- - 0
  - 0
  Deceit
  
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  This film rewards patience and is a devastating portrayal of Russia under Stalin. It starts off as a Chekhov play. Everyone is having a relaxing idyll in the ... read more »
  
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- - wrightman
  - 83 reviews
  - Maidstone
  - 02 Jul 2009 at 11:52
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- - 49
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  Tough! Beautiful! Horrendous!
  
  This is a truly excellent film! But really quite tough to take. I saw it on a Friday night before I was supposed to go out. I went home instead, feeling like I ... read more »
  
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- 139549
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  - Cambridge
  - 13 Aug 2005 at 01:38
- - 10
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  Beautiful, subtle, Damning
  
  Watch this movie and realise what we were missing all those decades when Russian movies were not available in the west. Nikita Mikhalkov dominates this movie. ... read more »
  
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- - IrinaLale
  - 9 reviews
  - London
  - 20 Dec 2005 at 23:19
- - 10
  - 2
  Much Chekhovian intensity
  
  Maybe I should have given this longer than half an hour but by that time I was bewildered by the lack of plot development, excess of Eisensteinian choreography ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 08 Aug 2007 at 12:59
- - 9
  - 1
  Very slow to watch
  
  Horrendously slow developing Russian film set in 1936, under Stalin, about a Russian Colonel of the revolution and his family who are visited by a friend of his... read more »
  
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  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 29 Mar 2006 at 17:47
- - 5
  - 0
  Engaging, haunting and rich.
  
  I added this film to my list for fairly vacuous reasons - I'd read its name somewhere while thinking 'Russian movies are awesome' and looking for ... read more »
  
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- - Mysterioso
  - 5 reviews
  - Belfast
  - 09 Mar 2010 at 13:25
- - 3
  - 0
  Multi-layered masterpiece
  
  This film just got better and better.. so much going on, the filming was very special.. the type of film that one will think of many times in the future as ... read more »
  
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  - Wirral
  - 02 Jun 2010 at 07:53
- - 3
  - 2
  slow and annoying
  
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  I did not like the film. There was nothing there to like. I did not like the acting and the actors. I did not like the directorship. I did not like the music. ... read more »
  
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- - rafi
  - 34 reviews
  - Beverley
  - 08 Nov 2009 at 21:26
- - 1
  - 0
  Burnt to a crisp by Boredom
  
  Well I sat down to watch this film fully prepared for a 'slow Burner', but Hell's Teeth this is slow. I gave it an hour and could not stand the ... read more »
  
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  - Shipley
  - 16 Dec 2007 at 13:18
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  Had to watch in three sittings to get through it!
  
  I don't deny that this is a very artistic well made film, but it is very slow. It's a long plod to a very poignant and moving ending.
  
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  - Surrey
  - 20 Sep 2008 at 19:30
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  A superbly acted tragi-comedy
  
  The first half of the film is like a Checkov play, but with plenty of humour. We witness the lyrical existence of a well-off, multi-generational family living ... read more »
  
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  - Innerleithen
  - 08 Oct 2008 at 08:45

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