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Burnt by the Sun

1994 · 2h 15m · Drama

A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.

IMDb
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes
81%

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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...

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Cast

Oleg Menshikov

Oleg Menshikov

Dmitry

Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov

Sergey

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Marusya

Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Nadya

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vsevolod Konstantinovich

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Mokhova

Vladimir Ilin

Vladimir Ilin

Kirik

Alla Kazanskaya

Alla Kazanskaya

Lidia Stepanovna

Nina Arkhipova

Nina Arkhipova

Elena Mikhailovna

Avangard Leontyev

Avangard Leontyev

chauffeur

André Oumansky

André Oumansky

Filipp

Inna Ulyanova

Inna Ulyanova

Olga Nikolaevna

Lyubov Rudneva

Lyubov Rudneva

Lyuba

Vladimir Ryabov

NKVD officer

Vladimir Belousov

NKVD employee

Aleksey Pokatilov

2nd NKVD officer

Crew

Media

Details

Release date
May 1, 1994
Status
Released
Original language
Russian
Runtime
2h 15m
Rated
R
Budget
$2,800,000
Revenue
$2,616,503
Genres
Drama

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