Film

Burnt by the Sun

1994 · 2h 15m · Drama

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

IMDb

7.8

Rotten Tomatoes

81%

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...

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

• Nikita MikhalkovDirector · Screenplay · Producer
• Rustam IbragimbekovScreenplay
• Michel SeydouxProducer
• Leonid VereshchaginExecutive Producer
• Vilen KalyutaDirector of Photography
• Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer
• Enzo MeniconiEditor

Burnt By The Sun (Утомлённые солнцем) [Oscar's Best Foreign Movie]

Release date

May 1, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

R

Budget

$2,800,000

Revenue

$2,616,503

Genres

Drama

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