Burnt by the Sun 1994

A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.

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R
Drama

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...

Release Date 1994-05-01
Runtime 2h 15m
Directors Nikita Mikhalkov, Vilen Kalyuta, Vladimir Krasinsky
Producers Jean-Louis Piel, Armand Barbault, Nicole Canne, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Sedov, Michel Seydoux, Leonid Vereshchagin, Alexander Delvig
Writers Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov