Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Утомлённые солнцем
"A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era."
Critics Score
🎬 81%
(RT: 81%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Oleg Menshikov as Dmitry
Nikita Mikhalkov as Sergey
Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Nadya
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mokhova
Vladimir Ilin as Kirik
Alla Kazanskaya as Lidia Stepanovna
Is Burnt by the Sun good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 81%.
Overview
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... Wikipedia ↗
