Burnt by the Sun

(1994)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 209 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1994

Runtime: 151 мин

Country: Russia, France

Director: Никита Михалков

Cast: Олег Меньшиков, Никита Михалков, Ингеборга Дапкунайте, Надежда Михалкова, Вячеслав Тихонов, Светлана Крючкова, Владимир Ильин, Алла Казанская, Нина Архипова, Авангард Леонтьев

Plot

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...