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Burnt by the Sun
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79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #731
- IMDb #645
- Rotten Tomatoes #899
- Letterboxd #820
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #286
- Kinopoisk #683
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See the most agreed on films →Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Details
- Director
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Writers
- Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov
- Studio
- Studio Trite, Camera One
- Released
- 1 May 1994
- Country
- Russia, France
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.8M
- Box office
- $2.6M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →3 major awards won · 4 wins from 6 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1995 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1994 | Grand Prix | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1994 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| BAFTA Awards 1996 | Film Not in the English Language | Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux | Nominee |
| Australian Film Institute Awards 1996 | Best Foreign Film | Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux | Nominee |
| State Prize of the Russian Federation 1994 | State Prize of the Russian Federation | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
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6 awards — Burnt by the Sun
×| Grand Prix | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Film Not in the English Language | Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux | Nominee |
| State Prize of the Russian Federation | Nikita Mikhalkov | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux | Nominee |