Directed by:
Nikita MikhalkovCinematography:
Vladislav OpelyantsComposer:
Eduard ArtemyevCast:
Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Andrey Panin, Vladimir Ilyin, Sergey Makovetskiy, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Garmash, Pavel Derevyanko (more)Plots(1)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Prestanding is a Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. It is the sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film Burnt by the Sun. At the end of the previous movie, Burnt by the Sun, the main protagonist, General Kotov, was executed by the NKVD. But, according to the new movie, he was sent to a labor camp instead. As Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, Kotov, along with his few surviving camp-fellows, is drafted to a penal military unit, to fight against the invading Germans. Two sub-plots also deal with the adventures of Kotov's daughter Nadya and Kotov's nemesis Mitya, the latter's suicide from the original movie was also retconned. Burnt by the Sun 2: Prestanding had the highest-ever budget for a Russian film ($55 million) but made a very poor box-office showing, despite heavy promotion that included a premiere inside the Moscow Kremlin. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Nikita Mikhalkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Oleg Menshikov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Prime Suspect 6 (2003) (TV movie)
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Mamy (2012)
The Island (2006)
Travelling with Pets (2007)
Andrey Panin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Mummy (1999)
Nežnyj vozrast (2000)
Vladimir Ilyin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Sergey Makovetskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Tri bogatyrya na dalnikh beregakh (2012)
Tri bogatyrja i Šamachanskaja carica (2010)
Artur Smolyaninov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Moj pareň - Angel (2012)
9th Company (2005)
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf (2011)
Sergey Garmash
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
The Excursionist (2013)
Pavel Derevyanko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Granny (2003)
Friday (2016)
Fortress of War (2010)
Валентин Гафт
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya! (1975) (TV movie)
Něbesa obětovannyje (1991)
The Garage (1979)
Aleksey Buldakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
The Guard (1989)
Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)
Andrey Merzlikin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Short stories (2012)
Fortress of War (2010)
Franz+Polina (2006)
Aleksey Petrenko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
King Lear (1970)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Евгений Витальевич Миронов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Spacewalker (2017)
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Brighton 4th (2021)
Aleksey Vertkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Banishment (2007)
Gogol. Viy (2018) (TV movie)
Kalashnikov (2020)
Anna Mikhalkova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Vongozero: The Outbreak (2019)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Revizor (1996)
Mikhail Efremov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
12 (2007)
9th Company (2005)
What Men Still Talk About (2011)
Иван Добронравов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Return (2003)
Mamy (2012)
Buy Me (2018)
Maksim Sukhanov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Mummy (1999)
Strana gluchich (1998)
One Breath (2019)