Icarus Films and Distrib
Films will team up for the domestic DVD debut of Russian filmmaker Nikita
Mikhalkov’s Sunstroke on Feb. 20.
His 1994 film, Burnt
by the Sun, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and Sunstroke
was the film selected by Russia to be in competition for the 2015 Oscar
category for Best Foreign Language film.
“Poruchik” (Martinsh
Kalita), which literally translates as “lieutenant,” is a young officer in the
captured White Army following the fall of the Crimea. He suspects his fate, and the other “White
Army” officers, is already sealed, which is currently under review by the
Bolsheviks (Red Army). They wait in a
prison camp on the Black Sea.
To pass the time,
“Poruchik” drifts back to a haunting memory of a brief encounter he had with a
beautiful woman (Viktoriya Solovyova) prior to the war. It’s 1907, and the glorious days of Czarist
Russia are at their height, and it is in this time and with this encounter —
from his memories — that sustain him as he awaits his fate.
Sunstroke is presented in Russian with English subtitles.
Icarus Films also
announced this past week that the DVD release of I Am Somebody: Three Films by
Madeline Anderson has been shifted from Feb. 6 to Feb. 20.
In other release news
this past week from Icarus Films, Feb. 20 will also be the DVD debut date for
documentary filmmaker John Pilger’s The Coming War on China.
With the “false alarm”
triggered in Hawaii this past week, the timing of The Coming War on China
couldn’t be better. Pilger examines the
“pivot to Asia” and the ramifications of a potential nuclear conflict with
China in documentary. This is presented
through archival footage and interviews with the likes of James Bradley (author
of “The China Mirage”), president Barack Obama, Giff Johnson (editor of the Marshal Islands Journal) and Thomas H.
Armbruster (the ambassador to the Marshal Islands).
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