

Burnt by the Sun
1994-05-01 · 135 min · ★ 6.9
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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Production details
- Directors
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Production companies
- Studio Trite, Camera One
- Countries
- Russia, France
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 2,800,000
- Revenue
- USD 2,616,503
Top Cast
Oleg MenshikovDmitry
Nikita MikhalkovSergey
Ingeborga DapkūnaitėMarusya
Nadezhda MikhalkovaNadya
Vyacheslav TikhonovVsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana KryuchkovaMokhova
Vladimir IlinKirik
Alla KazanskayaLidia Stepanovna
Nina ArkhipovaElena Mikhailovna
Avangard Leontyevchauffeur
André OumanskyFilipp
Inna UlyanovaOlga Nikolaevna
Lyubov RudnevaLyuba
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