Burnt by the Sun

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

Burnt by the Sun — 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...

• Release date
• May 1, 1994
• Runtime
• 135 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Nikita Mikhalkov

Burnt by the Sun — Cast

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