''Sunstroke'' ( Russian: Солнечный удар, translit: ''Solnechnyy udar'') is a 2014 Russian

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directed, produced and written by Nikita Mikhalkov, starring Martinsh Kalita and Viktoriya Solovyova. It is set after the collapse of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

during the

Red Terror The Red Terror (russian: Красный террор, krasnyj terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It started in lat ...

in 1920, with flashbacks to 1907, and is loosely based on the story "Sunstroke" and the book ''

Cursed Days ''Cursed Days'' (Окаянные дни, ''Okayánnye Dni'') is a book by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, compiled of diaries and notes he made while in Moscow and Odessa in 1918-1920. Fragments from it were published in 1925-1926 ...

'' by Nobel Prize-winning

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Ivan Bunin. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the

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at the 88th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot

The story is set in a prisoner-of-war camp in November 1920, in the

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, after the evacuation of the White Army, with several thousand White officers left behind on the peninsula. The officers are unaware of their impending doom, waiting for their fate to be decided by the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

officials. One of theman unnamed

poruchik The rank of lieutenant in Eastern Europe ( hr, poručnik, cs, poručík, pl, porucznik, russian: script=latn, poruchik, sr, script=latn, poručnik, sk, poručík) is one used in Slavophone armed forces. Depending on the country, it is either ...

(lieutenant)is haunted by the memories of a dramatic and brief love affair which occurred in 1907. He tries to understand how the

fell apart and who is to blame. His musing comes to an end when all the White officers board an old barge, which the Reds sink in the

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, and all officers perish.

Cast

In order of appearance in main titles: * Martinsh Kalita as a

(lieutenant) * Viktoriya Solovyova as a beautiful stranger * Sergei Karpov as Egoriy (Georgiy Sergeevich as a child) * Anastasiya Imamova as Tatyana * Sergey Serov as a priest * Kseniya Popovich as Olya * Andrey Popovich as Petya *

Aleksandr Ustyugov Aleksandr Sergeevich Ustyugov (russian: Александр Сергеевич Устюгов; born 17 October 1976) is a Russian actor, film director and musician. He is best known for his role as a main character Roman Shilov for 60 episodes o ...

as Vladimir Yumatov, an Imperial Navy officer * Aleksandr Oblasov as a steward * Aleksandr Borisov as a sailor * Maksim Bityukov as Trigorin *

Vitali Kishchenko Vitali Eduardovich Kishchenko (russian: Вита́лий Эдуа́рдович Ки́щенко; born May 25, 1964) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: l ...

as a cavalry captain * Denis Vasilev as a student * Aleksandr Adabashyan as a photographer * Eduard Artemyev as a photographer assistant * Kristina Kirillova as Lizonka *

Miloš Biković Miloš Biković ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Биковић, ; born January 13, 1988) is a Serbian actor and producer. His best known films are box office hits '' Serf'' and ''South Wind''. He is also known for his roles in movies ''Sunstroke'' directe ...

as baron Nikolay Alexandrovich Gulbe-Levitsky (Koka), a podporuchik (i.e. Second Lieutenant) of the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment of Her Majesty *

Avangard Leontiev Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev (russian: Аванга́рд Никола́евич Лео́нтьев; born February 27, 1947, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation ...

as fakir (

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) * Kirill Boltaev as Yesaul (i.e. Cossack Captain) * Aleksandr Michkov as

Junker Junker ( da, Junker, german: Junker, nl, Jonkheer, en, Yunker, no, Junker, sv, Junker ka, იუნკერი (Iunkeri)) is a noble honorific, derived from Middle High German ''Juncherre'', meaning "young nobleman"Duden; Meaning of Junke ...

(i.e. Cadet) * Aleksey Dyakin as Georgiy Sergeevich (Egoriy as an adult) * Miriam Sekhon as

Rosalia Zemlyachka Rosalia Samoilovna Zemlyachka, née Zalkind (russian: link=no, Розалия Самойловна Землячка, рожд. Залкинд; 20 March 187621 January 1947) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. As a revolutionary, she ...

* Sergey Bachurskiy as Béla Kun * Vladimir Yumatov as colonel

Production

Music

The musical score for ''Sunstroke'' was composed by Eduard Artemyev, who has collaborated with Mikhalkov on numerous movies ('' At Home Among Strangers'', ''An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano'', '' Burnt by the Sun'', ''

The Barber of Siberia ''The Barber of Siberia'' (russian: Сибирский цирюльник, translit. ''Sibirskiy tsiryulnik'') is a 1998 Russian film that re-united the Academy Award-winning team of director Nikita Mikhalkov and producer Michel Seydoux. It ...

'', etc.). A leading tune accompanying the lieutenant's romantic feelingstoward his bride and the beautiful strangeris a popular mezzo-soprano aria from

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

's opera '' Samson and Delilah'' called "''

Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix "" is a popular mezzo-soprano aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera ''Samson and Delilah'', known in English as "Softly awakes my heart", or more literally "My heart opens itself to your voice". It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she attempts to ...

''" ("My heart opens itself to your voice"), sung by Delilah as she attempts to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength. Also included in the soundtrack is the version of Nikolai Devitte's Russian Gypsy song "''Ne Dlya Menya''" ("Not for Me"), performed by Mikhalkov himself, backed by the Kuban Cossack Choir. This song had already been used by the director; in his 1979 film ''Five Evenings'' it was sung by the

Stanislav Lyubshin Stanislav Andreyevich Lyubshin (russian: link=no, Станислав Андреевич Любшин; born 6 April 1933) is a Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981). Life Stanislav Lyubshin is a Russian actor whose ...

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Release

The world premiere took place on October 3, 2014, in Belgrade, Serbia. The premiere of the film in

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took place on October 4, 2014; the film was released in wide distribution on October 9, 2014. The television premiere took place on November 4, 2014, on the Russia-1 television channel. In 2015, the same channel premiered the 5-episode version of the film.

References

External links

*
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*
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