Burnt by the Sun
Утомлённые солнцем1994
A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- 2h 15m
- May 1, 1994 · France, Russia
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...
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 1, 1994
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- France, Russia
- Production
- Canal+,Caméra One,Studio Trite,Camera One
- Cast
- Oleg Menshikov,Nikita Mikhalkov,Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė,Nadezhda Mikhalkova,Vyacheslav Tikhonov,Svetlana Kryuchkova,Vladimir Ilin,Alla Kazanskaya,Nina Arkhipova,Avangard Leontyevand 23 more
- Director
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Cinematography
- Vilen Kalyuta
- Music
- Eduard Artemyev
- Budget
- $2,800,000
- Revenue
- $2,616,503
- IMDb
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