AN INTERVIEW WITH NIKITA MIKHALKOV Your film takes place over the course of one summer day in 1936. Why did you choose this period of time My desire to make this film came in response to all the accusations throughout history brought upon my country, accusations made without realizing what was happening at the time. What right do we have, looking with the hindsight of the 1990's, to analyze any ...

NIKITA MIKHALKOV (Biography, Filmography as Director, Filmography as Actor) BIOGRAPHY Nikita Mikhalkov, who wrote, directed and played the lead role of Serguei in Burnt by the Sun, was born in Moscow in 1945 into a distinguished artistic family. His great grandfather, Vassily Surnikov and his grandfather, Pyotr Konchalovsky, were both acclaimed painters, his father, Sergei Mikhalkov, is a well ...