Burnt by the Sun
1994 · ★ 7.1 · Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
- Released
- 1994-05-01
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Language
- RU
- Budget
- $2.8M
- Box office
- $2.6M
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Nikita Mikhalkov
Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
Oleg Menshikov
Dimitri (Mitya)
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Marusia
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vsevolod
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadya Kotova
André Oumansky
Philippe
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Vladimir Ilin
Alla Kazanskaya
Nina Arkhipova
Avangard Leontyev
Inna Ulyanova
