Loosely based on the works of Nobel laureate —specifically his short story "Sunstroke" and his bitter revolution-era diary Cursed Days —the film operates on two starkly different timelines:
A young lieutenant (played by Martinsh Kalita) meets a beautiful, enigmatic married woman on a Volga River steamer. Their brief, intense encounter—which they describe as a literal "sunstroke"—becomes a lifelong haunting memory of a golden, opulent Russia. Sunstroke.2014.US.CUT.WEBRiP.x264.DD2.0.HUN-GS88
Thirteen years later, the same man is a defeated White Army officer held in a Crimean POW camp after the evacuation of the White Army. As he and thousands of others await their fate under the Red Army, he tries to reconcile his memories of romance with the wreckage of his country. Production and "US CUT" Significance Loosely based on the works of Nobel laureate