"Burnt by the Sun"
1994
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

"For those burnt by the sun of the revolution."  A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era. Director Nikita Mikhalkov plays a legendary revolutionary hero living in a dacha outside Moscow.  The unexpected arrival of an old flame brings about the sudden destruction of a happy family.  Most of the film's complex relationships are seen through the innocent eyes of Mikhalkov's beautiful daughter in a film that gently reveals the tragedy of living under Stalinism.  Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and, also won the Grand Prize of the Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival (tied with Huozhe, 1994). Russian with English subtitles.
134 minutes.