BURNT BY THE SUN (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, translit. Utomlyonnye solntsem, literally "Tired by the sun") is a 1994 film by Russian director
and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the
Stalinist Soviet Union. Like a tragedy by Sophocles, Burnt by the Sun takes place over the course of one day.

The film received the Grand Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, among many other honours.