Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel

Film poster
Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Produced by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Written by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring	Nikita Mikhalkov Oleg Menshikov
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Cinematography	Vladislav Opelyants
Edited by	Svetolik Zajc
Production company	Three T Productions
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release date	22 April 2011 (2011-04-22)
Running time	157 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Box office	$8.2 million[1]

Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel is a 2011 film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, released on May 5, 2011. It is a sequel to the films Burnt by the Sun (1994) and Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010).

Plot

1943, the height of the Great Patriotic War.

Mitty (Oleh Moonshine) finds Molotov (Nikita Mikhail) in the ranks of the penalty battalion, standing at the walls of some impregnable Citadel. Drunken general Melezhko orders the penal servicemen to attack the fortress, although this means for them a certain death. Noticing Mitya and not wanting to meet with him, Kotov, without waiting for the team, raises the penalty boxers to attack, and Mitya is forced to go under heavy fire from the enemy, since the trenches are not allowed to return to the ZAG, firing on the back stairs. Mitya and Kotov remain unscathed. After the battle, taking Kotov to the rear, Mitty tells him everything that he did and gives him a gun. However, Molotov does not kill Mitya. Mitya reports that Kotov was rehabilitated and awarded the rank of Lieutenant-General.

Nadia, by that time shell-shocked, still serves in the medical unit. The truck with the wounded and pregnant woman in which she rides falls under the bombardment of German aviation. Despite the bomb, which fell two meters from the truck, she remains unscathed. The wounded take birth and call the child (whose father is a German) by Joseph Vicariousness, in honor of Stalin.

Mitty and Molotov come to the dacha, where once the commander himself lived with his family (the house that appears in the first part). However, no one expected Kotov's house, since it was believed that he was shot. Marusya (Viktoria Tolstoganova) is raising a child from Kirik (Vladimir Ilyin), and all the photographs, somehow related to Kotov and Nadia, are cleaned by the chests of drawers. Thus, the arrival of Kotov violates the peace of the household, and the next day, the whole family decides to leave secretly. The general overtakes them at the station, but let's go, as he begs Marusya about it.

Later, Stalin orders Kotov to carry out the most complicated and almost doomed operation: to lead 15,000 civil men into a frontal attack on the Citadel, who, for various reasons, avoided participation in hostilities, so that the defenders would spend ammunition on it, a storm of the Citadel with low losses among soldiers. If successful, Stalin promises to give the army command under Kotov.

Meanwhile, Mitya is arrested and accused of espionage and preparing an attempt on Stalin. For a long time wishing death, he is relieved to sign all the protocols that provide him with a death sentence. Those who arrived in civil trenches are given shanks from shovels. Kotov must give the order for the offensive, but he himself descends into the trenches and, taking the stalk, first slowly goes to the Citadel. Followed by officers. The rest follow them. The German gunner aims at a harmonious player, but, due to carelessness, dies from a shot of a Soviet sniper. The fall of the corpse of a German soldier accidentally causes a fire in the citadel, due to which it explodes. From a nearby medical unit Nadia, noticing his father through binoculars runs to him and, being on a minefield, steps on a mine. Kotov puts his foot on top of Nadina and orders her, taking her foot out of the boot, to step back 20 steps ...

In the last scene of the film, Kotov with the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on a gymnast and Nadia are riding a tank at the head of a tank column of Soviet troops heading for Berlin.

References

• «Утомлённые солнцем 2: Цитадель» on IMDb рейтинг-103.4