Burnt by the Sun Poster

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Drama  
Rayting:   8.0/10 14.5K votes
Country: Russia | France
Language: Russian | French
Release date: 22 December 1994

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village with his young wife and six year old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things...

Movie Trailer

Where to Watch

  • Buy
  • Buy
  • Buy

User Reviews

iblokh1 28 May 2002

To be honest, this movie had its strong points, but in the end, fell short of the mark. Especially due to the horribly prolonged ending........it should have ended with Kotov's daughter running out of the car, everything that followed was much too obvious. For me, the best moment is when Kotov sits with his daughter playing her game; the look on his face says much more than the last 15min of the movie, the "symbolic" Stalin balloon, and the predictable...well, ending.

serge-fenenko 29 October 2004

Fmovies: This movie is about the most desperate and tragic situation in the human life. This is when our life is determined by external forces. Even the most basic form of happiness - being with you family, enjoying your child - were impossible in the Russia of Stalin.

Sometimes I think about people who were borne 20 years before World War II in Germany, Poland or Russia. I wonder whether they had a feeling that the life was extremely unfair to them. The feeling that your fate was determined by the time you were borne in, and that you couldn't do anything at all to somehow change it. If Mitya, Kotov and Marusya would not die then, they would have to wait for 50 years to be able to truly understand what happened to them and who was to blame for it.

I was puzzled why Mitya picked up the phone and agreed to arrest Kotov. Why didn't he stop his suffering immediately, as he knew that he had no other option than ruining lives of the people he loved. Was it his hatred towards Kotov and the opportunity to take revenge for being expelled for 10 years? Was it the last hope that his love to Marusya would reverse her marriage?

After watched the film again & again I decided that he knew from the offset there was no way out. Mitya went to his old home because he wanted just one thing - to say farewell to his dream that the old times would ever return. The dream that made him betray his comrades in the 20th, and come back from France in the 30th.

I'm so happy that we live in freedom and that the iron curtain fell.

=G= 25 April 2001

"Burnt by the Sun" glides effortlessly, seamlessly though the genres as it tells of a handful of Russian characters who collectively constitute a family of sorts with great humor and drama, poignant and sweetly sentimental moments, and excellence both technically and artistically. What is more, the film's story is interesting, unpredictable, and well told with depth and thoroughly developed characters.

The much which has been written about the politics of the our time, the Oscar award and the bravura with which it was accepted, etc. is much ado about nothing. This is a movie. This is art and entertainment. And, when taken for what it is, "Burnt by the Sun" is truly a masterpiece.

gray4 15 January 2004

Burnt by the Sun fmovies. A beautiful film. It amazingly combines the gentle, romantic tragi-comedy of Chekhov or Turgenev with one of the most effective exposes seen on screen of the corruption and underlying evil of the Stalinist era - the film takes place at the height of the Stalinist purges.

Each of the complex characters is portrayed in detail and with affection by director Mikhalkov. The Red Army hero, Kotov, starts the film as a braggart, chasing away Soviet tanks from his local village. We then see him as a loving husband and a devoted father, living a pre-revolutionary rustic life in his dacha. But further less appealing character facets emerge as the film develops. His wife, her family and their six-year old daughter Nadia (a triumphant performance) reveal their hopes and fears, and come over as a very real family, with foibles and a past which shapes their present. The intrusion of Dmitri after ten years away at first adds to this rural idyll, until the dark truth slowly is revealed - although the opening sequence, when he is seen playing Russian roulette, hints that all is not as well as the glowing landscapes and happy peasants might imply.

The end is shocking, but at the same time almost comic, as Stalin and Stalinism intrude brutally into the peaceful countryside. But there is a sense of completion and of a tale well told as the final credits indicate the fate of the main characters. Mikhalkov is a master story-teller, and this is one of the great films of the 1990s, and a Russian masterpiece.

perica-43151 20 July 2018

Despite its dark subject matter, this is a very positive and heart warming movie. It shows Stalinism without the Western propaganda, through the lens of great Soviet people that made everything good even under Stalin possible. An ode of love to the great Russian and Soviet nation. Definitely recommended.

ssto 16 September 2007

i remember seeing this incredibly strong, heartbreaking movie three times in three consecutive days. i couldn't get enough of the pure beauty of the scenery, the warmth of the characters, the pain you feel when you know what doom awaits them around the corner.

i understand that for political or other issues many Russians don't like this movie, but i think it is a very honest, revelation story by Nikita Mikhalkov, who after this movie I came to respect as a genius artist. probably forever in my mind will live so many beautiful scenes from this movie: the burning, yet mild sun by the lake, the forgotten secrets of two ex-lovers, the infinite 'ruskoe pole', the happy people at the beach, living happily unsuspecting of the terror machine of the dictatorship 'for the people'

outstanding movie, one of my forever favorites

20/10

Similar Movies

6.2
Jug Jugg Jeeyo

Jug Jugg Jeeyo 2022

9.0
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect 2022

5.4
Deep Water

Deep Water 2022

6.0
Jayeshbhai Jordaar

Jayeshbhai Jordaar 2022

5.4
Spiderhead

Spiderhead 2022

5.0
Shamshera

Shamshera 2022

5.9
Samrat Prithviraj

Samrat Prithviraj 2022

7.0
Gangubai Kathiawadi

Gangubai Kathiawadi 2022


Share Post

Direct Link

Markdown Link (reddit comments)

HTML (website / blogs)

BBCode (message boards & forums)

Watch Movies Online | Privacy Policy
Fmovies.guru provides links to other sites on the internet and doesn't host any files itself.