Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

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

TMDb

7.1

01/05/1994 • 2h 15m
original-title

Утомлённые солнцем

status

Released

production-companies

Caméra One

Canal+

Studio Trite

original-language

Russian

budget

$2,800,000

revenue

$2,616,503

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...

production-countries

France

Russia

spoken-languages

Russian

Part of the Burnt by the Sun Trilogy

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