Burnt by the Sun (1995)
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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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...
Rating:R
Genre:Drama
Written By:Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov
In Theaters:4/21/1995
Box Office:$2,616,503
Runtime:135 minutes
Studio:Studio Trite, Camera One
Cast
Nikita Mikhalkov
Director
Oleg Menshikov
Dmitry
Nikita Mikhalkov
Sergey
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Marusya
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadya
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Mokhova
Vladimir Ilin
Kirik
Alla Kazanskaya
Lidia Stepanovna
Nina Arkhipova
Elena Mikhailovna
Avangard Leontyev
chauffeur
André Oumansky
Filipp
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