Throughout the film we see Nadya singing a song with a quite famous melody that I can't identify. Does anyone know what the original is called (I'm assuming it's a Russian nursery rhyme based on a classical composition from a long time before)?
Is it Shostakovich's Russian Waltz?
I'm sure someone Russian would know....please, I'm dying to know what it is so I can go buy it because I haven't seen the film since I first saw it and therefore can't remember the exact tune.
Thank you.
Hello,
as far as I remember the song is performed by Vadim Kozin, one of the most famous singers in the 1930s. The song's title is "Utomlennoe Solnce" ("The Tired Sun"). Thus, the song's title, in a bit transformed shape, was adopted as the movie's title. I think the English translation of the movie's title should be "Tired by the Sun". Maybe it sounds not so straightforward as "Burnt by the Sun", but it should be so. The lyrics of the song is about the sun that has "tired" at the end of the day.
The song has been actually composed by the polish composer Jerzy Petersburski (same guy who made "Oh, Donna Clare) and is known in Poland as "Ta ostatnia niedziela" (The last Sunday) sometimes called as "Suicide tango".
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I can't believe I only just found this reply. Thank you! I'm finally able to listen to this song for the first time in over 2 years.
(In my extensive research for it I found something very similar - Bumcello's Beautiful You - has anyone else heard it and noticed the similarity between the main melodies?)