Burnt by the Sun

1994 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

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6.9

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...

Released: 1994-05-01135 minDir: Nikita MikhalkovDrama

Cast

Oleg Menshikov as Dmitry
Nikita Mikhalkov as Sergey
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Marusya
Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Nadya
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mokhova

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Burnt by the Sun (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, romanized: Utomlyonnye solntsem, lit. 'wearied by the sun') is a 1994 Russian drama film starring, directed, written, and produced by Nikita Mikhalkov and co-written by Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer, played by Mikhalkov, and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union. While on vacation with his wife, young daughter, and assorted friends and family, things change dramatically for KomDiv Kotov when his wife's old lover, Dmitri, shows up after being away for many years. The film also stars Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhalkov's daughter Nadezhda Mikhalkova.

Burnt by the Sun was popular in Russia and received positive reviews in the United States. It won the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and other honours.