Burnt by the Sun (1995)

04/21/1995 2h 15m

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

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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 Ages at Release

Oleg Menshikov

as Dmitry

Born 11/08/1960, age

Nikita Mikhalkov

as Sergey

Born 10/21/1945, age

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

as Marusya

Born 01/20/1963, age

Svetlana Kryuchkova

as Mokhova

Born 06/22/1950, age

Vladimir Ilin

as Kirik

Born 11/16/1947, age

Evgeny Mironov

as lieutenant

Born 11/29/1966, age

Marat Basharov

as episode

Born 08/22/1974, age