Burnt by the Sun

Original title: Утомлённые солнцем

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

• 1994
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• 2h 15m
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• R

• Drama

★ 6.9 TMDB Rating · 215 votes

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...

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Release date

May 1, 1994

Original language

Russian

Origin

Russia