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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

Rating: 7.1/10 (181 votes)


Burnt by the Sun Trilogy

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    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

    Oleg Menshikov

    Dimitri (Mitya)

  • Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

    Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

    Marusia

  • Vyacheslav Tikhonov

    Vyacheslav Tikhonov

    Vsevolod

  • Nadezhda Mikhalkova

    Nadezhda Mikhalkova

    Nadya Kotova

  • André Oumansky

    André Oumansky

    Philippe

  • Svetlana Kryuchkova

    Svetlana Kryuchkova

  • Vladimir Ilin

    Vladimir Ilin

  • Alla Kazanskaya

    Alla Kazanskaya

  • Nina Arkhipova

    Nina Arkhipova

  • Avangard Leontyev

    Avangard Leontyev

  • Inna Ulyanova

    Inna Ulyanova

  • Lyubov Rudneva

    Lyubov Rudneva

  • Vladimir Belousov

    Vladimir Belousov

  • Evgeny Mironov

    Evgeny Mironov

  • Georgiy Dronov

    Georgiy Dronov

  • Marat Basharov

    Marat Basharov