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Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Original title: Utomlyonnye solntsem

dir: Nikita Mikhalkov

The film opens in 1936, just before Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Colonel Sergei Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov), an Old Bolshevik and decorated hero of the Russian Civil War, is enjoying life in his country dacha. Alongside him is his wife Maroussia (Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė), their daughter Nadia, and Maroussia's large and eccentric family of Chekhovian aristocrats. The charismatic Kotov, relaxed in his semi-retirement, is held in awe by all who surround him.

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