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Burnt by the Sun was not the best of the nominated foreign films (Before the Rain deserved to win), and is not even very original.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Burnt by the Sun
A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
1994 · 2h 15m · R
Drama
Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Overview
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...
Director and cast
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Though my foreign Oscar pick would still have been Eat Drink Man Woman, Sun is such a personal close second that I can go with the academy novelty of novelties.
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