Are they going to pull this off?
I don't see how a sequel could be made from the first movie?
Does anyone know anything (I know there are other posts, but the more the merrier - maybe someone will answer one of the threads)?
I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.
Movies like this usually don't have sequels.
Rosebud
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This sequel had better be good, or I'll have lost all faith in the ultimate goodness of art. I'm not sure they could do a plot revolving around the daughter. Wasn't the little girl also killed (or am I remembering it wrong in my old age)?
Maybe they are doing a prequel, as mentioned before. Whatever it is, they'd better have good reasons for doing it. This is just one of those movies that doesn't need a "Part II".
BTW, ingres, I like your signature.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. --Federico Fellini
Thanks. If I remember correctly, I think it's a quote from Dennis Miller.
And it's been a good 5 years since I saw the original, so I don't really remember it that well (except that I loved it, of course). I don't remember the girl dying, though.
But, Oleg Menshikov is involved - and he's an excellent actor, so maybe there's hope.
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Wow, this totally came off as a surprise for me! a sequel? that's interesting - What the hell is gonna happen! I have to see this movie now. Original movie is the kind that should not have sequels.
sharePerhaps they're going to make the film about what happened between Mitya and Kotov. Show Marusia and Mitya as young kids and their relationship before Mitya was sent to the war by Kotov.
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kgb back in the day, fsb now.
it sure looked like mitya killed himself in the end. and i thought kotov died and his wife and daughter went to the work camp to be "rehabilitated" and the daughter got out years later according to the epilogue. it's been a while since i saw this, and am as surprised as anyone to hear of a sequel/prequel.
but, alas, my russian days are over.
At the end Kotov was executed (shot) by the order of Stalin, they say that in the epilogue, if I remember correctly. The film is set exactly in the period of the great purges when tens of thousands of officers were executed, Stalin was mistrustful of them. The purges led to catastrophic conditions in the army and several disastrous defeats at the beginning of World War II.
And as far as I remember, Kotov's wife and daughter were sent to a camp and when they were rehabilitated, they moved to Kazakhstan where they lived until their death (the daughter died in early 90s).
I really don't know how Mikhalkov is going to pull this off. He is my favourite Russian director, but we have to admit that twelve years have passed since his released "Utomlyonnye solntsem" and neither he nor Menshikov became any younger during that period.
"Burnt By The Sun" was an excellent film - the second one will probably be just as great! The epilogue of the film had it that Kotov's wife died, in 1940, in the gulag where she was sentenced to as a 'wife of an enemy of the people', as the soviets used to term it....their daughter didn't die...but did see her parents have their sentences overturned in the 1950s.
shareIn modern filmaking world, if Scorsese makes Oscar-winning remake of foreign film, why Mikhalkov can't do a sequel to his own Oscar-winning film?
shareI can be helpful a little. Rustam Ibragimbekov, the scriptwriter, was a guest during this year's "Summer film school", film festival regularly held in Czech Republic. The first movie was projected there, speech of and discussion with Rustam preceded it. He mentioned that Michalkov was just then shooting the war sequences, so the 2nd movie will at least partially take place during WW2. Also he said that Dimitri will be present in the movie. When one of the spectators objected that he was obviously shown dying in the bath at the end of the first movie, Rustam smiled and said: "You know, the NKVD agents don't die that easily."
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http://www.ymdb.com/kotas-frantisek/l32468_ukuk.html?movieUp=0087803
I'd love to watch it anyway. Hopefully it will come out within this or next year.
shareI think I might go to see this movie just for the sake of seeing it, but I don't plan on getting my hopes up anytime soon. As several people have noted already on this thread, Burnt by the Sun is one of those movies that needs no sequel. I suppose it's believable that Dmitri survived his suicide attempt, but to me it's more believable (and fits the original story better) that he died. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
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i hope mitya didn't really die, somebody could have saved his life.
lol i just want to see more of oleg menshikov.
man it just takes away from the first movie if we are to believe that mitya and kotov both lived...i'll still go see it just to see what they did with it, but i'm not going in with high hopes
shareI think a follow-up story with the surviving characters - and presumably some new ones - could work. I just hope they give it a title of its own rather than "Burnt by the Sun 2"!
shareAbsolutely, Oleg is a fine actor. We saw him half-heartedly attempt suicide in the first scene, so I have no problem believing he survived his bath. I am just looking forward to letting the master Mikhailkov tell his story
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