Mikhalkov 's most famous production to date , '' Burnt by the Sun '' ( 1994 ) , was steeped in the paranoid atmosphere of Joseph Stalin 's Great Terror . The film received the Grand Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , among many other honours . To date , '' Burnt by the Sun '' remains the highest-grossing film to come out of the former Soviet Union
Great Terror
Great Purge
Nikita Mikhalkov