Burnt by the Sun
“A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.”
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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Part of Burnt by the Sun Trilogy
3 films
Cast
33 people
Oleg Menshikov
Dmitry
Known for
Invasion
The Barber of Siberia
Nikita Mikhalkov
Sergey
Known for
12
Walking the Streets of Moscow
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Marusya
Known for
Mission: Impossible
Seven Years in Tibet
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadya
Known for
Not Like Dad
Hostages
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Known for
Seventeen Moments of Spring
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Mokhova
Known for
Messenger Boy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Vladimir Ilin
Kirik
Known for
The Spacewalker
A Dog Named Palma
Alla Kazanskaya
Lidia Stepanovna
Also in
The Saint
Youth of Commanders
Nina Arkhipova
Elena Mikhailovna
Also in
Oh, That Nastya!
Bountiful Summer
Avangard Leontyev
chauffeur
Known for
Oblomov
The Barber of Siberia
André Oumansky
Filipp
Known for
The Spy
Napoleon
Inna Ulyanova
Olga Nikolaevna
Known for
The Pokrovsky Gates
Nikita Mikhalkov Director · Rustam Ibragimbekov Screenplay Eduard Artemyev Composer
Worldwide gross $2.6M · Budget $2.8M · United States release April 21, 1995
Box office
Budget
$2,800,000
Worldwide gross
$2,616,503
Gross vs. budget
0.9×
Production
Studio Trite
Production
Camera One
Production
Sony Pictures Classics
Studio · Production
Caméra One
Production
Three T Productions
Production
Russia · France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Утомлённые солнцем
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 1, 1994
Theatrical
United States · April 21, 1995
Theatrical
Brazil
January 1, 2016 · Premiere · Brasília
Canada
September 9, 1994 · Theatrical · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
January 24, 1997 · Limited theatrical · Projekt 100
France
May 21, 1994 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
August 31, 1994 · Theatrical
Switzerland
March 10, 2011 · Digital
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