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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 International Feature Film, among many other honors. To date, "Burnt by the Sun" remains the highest-grossing film to come out of the former Soviet Union.