Summary
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
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Runtime: 135 minutes
Genres: Drama
Original Language: RU
Rating: ⭐ 7.1/10 (181 votes)
Burnt by the Sun Trilogy
Burnt by the Sun
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...
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
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Cast
Oleg Menshikov
Dimitri (Mitya)
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Marusia
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vsevolod
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadya Kotova
André Oumansky
Philippe
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Vladimir Ilin
Alla Kazanskaya
Nina Arkhipova
Avangard Leontyev
Inna Ulyanova
Lyubov Rudneva
Vladimir Belousov
Evgeny Mironov
Georgiy Dronov
Marat Basharov