Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Name: Burnt by the Sun
Genre: Drama
Released: 1994-05-01
Duration: 135 min
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov

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...

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Released 1994-05-01 · 135 min · Drama

Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

Part of Burnt by the Sun Trilogy

Cast

Oleg Menshikov as Dmitry
Nikita Mikhalkov as Sergey
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Marusya
Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Nadya
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mokhova
Vladimir Ilin as Kirik
Alla Kazanskaya as Lidia Stepanovna
Nina Arkhipova as Elena Mikhailovna
Avangard Leontyev as chauffeur
André Oumansky as Filipp
Inna Ulyanova as Olga Nikolaevna
Lyubov Rudneva as Lyuba
Vladimir Ryabov as NKVD officer
Vladimir Belousov as NKVD employee