Burnt by the Sun
"A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era."
Overview
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...
About Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Released in 1994, Burnt by the Sun is a drama film from Studio Trite (Russia). It was directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov. The cast is led by Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Nadezhda Mikhalkova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov. With a runtime of 2h 15m, the film averages 6.9/10 across 209 TMDB ratings. It was made on a budget of $2,800,000 and went on to gross $2,616,503 worldwide.
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