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Burnt by the Sun
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Burnt by the Sun

1994-05-01 · 135 min · ★ 6.9

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...

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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 MenshikovOleg MenshikovDmitry
Nikita MikhalkovNikita MikhalkovSergey
Ingeborga DapkūnaitėIngeborga DapkūnaitėMarusya
Nadezhda MikhalkovaNadezhda MikhalkovaNadya
Vyacheslav TikhonovVyacheslav TikhonovVsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana KryuchkovaSvetlana KryuchkovaMokhova
Vladimir IlinVladimir IlinKirik
Alla KazanskayaAlla KazanskayaLidia Stepanovna
Nina ArkhipovaNina ArkhipovaElena Mikhailovna
Avangard LeontyevAvangard Leontyevchauffeur
André OumanskyAndré OumanskyFilipp
Inna UlyanovaInna UlyanovaOlga Nikolaevna
Lyubov RudnevaLyubov RudnevaLyuba
Vladimir RyabovNKVD officer
Vladimir BelousovNKVD employee
Aleksey Pokatilov2nd NKVD officer
Evgeny MironovEvgeny Mironovlieutenant
Tamara Akopovaepisode
Natela Abuladzeepisode
Ion Aksentiepisode

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