Nikita MIKHALKOV
Никита МИХАЛКОВ
Nikita MIKHALKOV
Russia / France / Germany, 2011, 157mn 
Black and white, fiction
Burnt by the Sun 2 : Citadel
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Утомленные солнцем 2 : Цитадель

 

 Soleil trompeur 2 : La Citadelle

 Utomlennye solntsem 2 : Tsitadel

 
Directed by : Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ)
Writing credits : Rustam IBRAGIMBEKOV (Рустам ИБРАГИМБЕКОВ), Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ), Vladimir MOISEYENKO (Владимир МОИСЕЕНКО), Aleksandr NOVOTOTSKY (Александр НОВОТОЦКИЙ), Gleb PANFILOV (Глеб ПАНФИЛОВ), Eduard VOLODARSKY (Эдуард ВОЛОДАРСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Sergey BACHURSKY (Сергей БАЧУРСКИЙ)
Vladlen DAVYDOV (Владлен ДАВЫДОВ) ...Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Dmitry DYUZHEV (Дмитрий ДЮЖЕВ) ...Ivan
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН) ...Kirik
Roman MADIANOV (Роман МАДЯНОВ)
Sergey MAKOVETSKY (Сергей МАКОВЕЦКИЙ) ...Lunin
Oleg MENSHIKOV (Олег МЕНЬШИКОВ) ...Dmitri Arsentiev
Andrey MERZLIKIN (Андрей МЕРЗЛИКИН)
Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ) ...Sergey Kotov
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА)
Nadezhda MIKHALKOVA (Надежда МИХАЛКОВА) ...Nadia
Aleksey PANIN (Алексей ПАНИН)
Eveline SAKURO (Эвелина САКУРО)
Maksim SUKHANOV (Максим СУХАНОВ)
Viktoria TOLSTOGANOVA (Виктория ТОЛСТОГАНОВА) ...Marusya Kotova
Mikhail YEFREMOV (Михаил ЕФРЕМОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladislav OPELIANTS (Владислав ОПЕЛЬЯНЦ)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Produced by : Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ), Leonid VERESHCHAGIN (Леонид ВЕРЕЩАГИН)
Production : Trite, Zolotoy Oryol
Film revenue in Russia : 1.521 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 05/05/2011
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb

Plot synopsis
The second part of the dilogy that continues the Oscar-winning film “Burnt by the Sun”.
Division Commander Kotov has paid with his crippled fate for the restoration of his reputation. He returns to the house whose memory has given him strength for all those terrible years. But what awaits Kotov in this house shakes him up: everything has changed, his fragile world has collapsed. Kotov again needs to fight – for his name, for his honour. For love. For his Citadel.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Разбираем 12 фильмов о войне, снятых в РФ и Украине после 2014 года [Films tournés en Russie et Ukraine après 2014], Anton DOLIN, Radio Dolin, 2022
Soleil trompeur – La Trilogie [Nikita MIKHALKOV], Guillaume GAS, courte-focale.fr, 2017
Nikita Mikhalkov : Burnt by the Sun 2 : Citadel (Utomlennye solntsem 2: Tsitadel’, 2011), Yelena RAZLOGOVA, kinokultura.com, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2013
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011