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Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

1994, Movie, 2h 15min

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...

Country: Russia,France

Director:

Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast:

Nikita Mikhalkov,

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė,

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7.0

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Critic Rob Driscoll

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6

...manages the considerable feat of combining arthouse political satire with the warm and hazy glow of a feelgood family drama.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marc Savlov

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8

...a brilliant, Chekhovian meditation on trust, love, and the intrusive horrors that period of time brought to otherwise normal families.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Burnt by the Sun was released in theaters on April 21, 1995.