Burnt by the Sun
- IMDb link: 0111579
- IMDb rating: 7.8 (17,270 votes)
- Genres: Drama, War, History
- Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
- Cast: Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and others
- Release date: 21 Apr 1995
- Release year: 1994
- Runtime: 135 minutes
- Country: Russia, France
- Keywords: nkvd, soviet, 1930s, stalinism, reference to joseph stalin, father daughter relationship, countryside, russia, repression, soviet citizen
Plot:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village 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...