SUNSTROKE (2014) in Russian with English subtitles

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SUSTROKE (Russian: Солнечный удар, translit: Solnechnyy udar) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed, produced and written by Nikita Mikhalkov, starring Martinsh Kalita and Viktoriya Solovyova. It is set after the collapse of the Russian Empire during the Red Terror in 1920, with flashbacks to 1907, and is loosely based on the story "Sunstroke" and the book Cursed Days by Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

PLOT:
The story is set in a prisoner-of-war camp in November 1920, in the Crimea, after the evacuation of the White Army, with several thousand White officers left behind on the peninsula. The officers are unaware of their impending doom, waiting for their fate to be decided by the Red Army officials.[3] One of them – an unnamed poruchik (lieutenant) – is haunted by the memories of a dramatic and brief love affair which occurred in 1907. He tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame. His musing comes to an end when all the White officers board an old barge, ostensibly into exile.

CAST:
Martinsh Kalita as a poruchik (lieutenant)
Viktoriya Solovyova as a beautiful stranger
Sergei Karpov as Egoriy (Georgiy Sergeevich as a child)
Anastasiya Imamova as Tatyana
Sergey Serov as a priest
Kseniya Popovich as Olya
Andrey Popovich as Petya
Aleksandr Ustyugov as Vladimir Yumatov, an Imperial Navy officer
Aleksandr Oblasov as a steward
Aleksandr Borisov as a sailor
Maksim Bityukov as Trigorin
Vitali Kishchenko as a cavalry captain
Denis Vasilev as a student
Aleksandr Adabashyan as a photographer
Eduard Artemyev as a photographer assistant
Kristina Kirillova as Lizonka
Miloš Biković as baron Nikolay Alexandrovich Gulbe-Levitsky (Koka), a podporuchik (i.e. Second Lieutenant) of the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment of Her Majesty
Avangard Leontiev as fakir (prestidigitator)
Kirill Boltaev as Yesaul (i.e. Cossack Captain)
Aleksandr Michkov as Junker (i.e. Cadet)
Aleksey Dyakin as Georgiy Sergeevich (Egoriy as an adult)
Miriam Sekhon as Rosalia Zemlyachka
Sergey Bachurskiy as Béla Kun
Vladimir Yumatov as colone

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