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Burnt by the Sun (1994)

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

TMDB user score 6.9/10
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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
  • Evgeny Mironov Evgeny Mironov lieutenant
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