Burnt by the Sun

The story

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...

In the same saga

Burnt by the Sun Trilogy

In release order

This film

Burnt by the Sun

1994

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

2010

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

2011

Cast

O Oleg MenshikovDmitry N Nikita MikhalkovSergey I Ingeborga DapkūnaitėMarusya N Nadezhda MikhalkovaNadya V Vyacheslav TikhonovVsevolod Konstantinovich S Svetlana KryuchkovaMokhova V Vladimir IlinKirik A Alla KazanskayaLidia Stepanovna N Nina ArkhipovaElena Mikhailovna A Avangard Leontyevchauffeur A André OumanskyFilipp I Inna UlyanovaOlga Nikolaevna

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L Lyubov RudnevaLyuba V Vladimir RyabovNKVD officer V Vladimir BelousovNKVD employee A Aleksey Pokatilov2nd NKVD officer E Evgeny Mironovlieutenant T Tamara Akopovaepisode N Natela Abuladzeepisode I Ion Aksentiepisode M Marat Basharovepisode G G. Barinovepisode I I. Buzikinaepisode V Valeriy Denisovepisode G Georgiy Dronovepisode A Anatoly Ermilovepisode V V. Posmetukhovepisode L L. Runovaepisode Z Zinaida Sidorkovaepisode V V. Tyuremnovepisode O Oleg Feoktistovepisode L L. Chebylkinepisode T Tinatin Lapshiaepisode (uncredited)