Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

1994 · 2 hr 15 min · R

Drama, War

Directors

Nikita Mikhalkov

Actors

  • Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Ingeborga Dapkunaite
  • Oleg Menshikov

Credits: 18

Summary

In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.

More about this movie

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village 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...