FeatureR1994·135m·6.9

Burnt by the Sun

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

Drama

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

Oleg Menshikov

Dmitry

Nikita Mikhalkov

Sergey

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Marusya

Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Nadya

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vsevolod Konstantinovich

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Mokhova

Vladimir Ilin

Kirik

Alla Kazanskaya

Lidia Stepanovna

Nina Arkhipova

Elena Mikhailovna

Avangard Leontyev

chauffeur

André Oumansky

Filipp

Inna Ulyanova

Olga Nikolaevna

Lyubov Rudneva

Lyuba

Vladimir Ryabov

NKVD officer

Vladimir Belousov

NKVD employee

Aleksey Pokatilov

2nd NKVD officer

Evgeny Mironov

lieutenant

Tamara Akopova

episode

Natela Abuladze

episode

Ion Aksenti

episode

Details

Status
Released
Original language
Languages
Budget
$2.8M
Revenue
$2.6M
Age rating
R
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Studio TriteCamera One

Crew

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Writers

Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nikita Mikhalkov

Aleksandr Samulekin

Production Design

Natalya Ivanova

Costume Design

Vilen Kalyuta

Director of Photography

Enzo Meniconi

Editor

Vladimir Aronin

Production Design

Eduard Artemyev

Original Music Composer

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