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Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 1, 1994

Runtime

2h 15m

Genres

Drama

User Score

71%

Original Title

Утомлённые солнцем

Production Companies

Caméra One, Canal+, Studio Trite

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Budget

$2,800,000

Revenue

$2,616,503

Description

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...