Burnt by the Sun

Overview

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

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Natela Abuladze

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Ion Aksenti

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