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Burnt by the Sun

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...

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Budget: $2,800,000
Revenue: $2,616,503
ROI: -6.6%

Verdict: Flop

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Directors

> Nikita Mikhalkov (Director)
> Vilen Kalyuta (Director of Photography)
> Tamara Odintsova (Casting Director)
> Vladimir Krasinsky (First Assistant Director)
> Tasya Tsvetnova (Assistant Director)
> Aleksey Pokatilov (Assistant Director)
> Zinaida Sidorkova (Assistant Director)
> Elena Dezhurova (Assistant Director)

Writers

> Nikita Mikhalkov (Screenplay)
> Rustam Ibragimbekov (Screenplay)
> Nikita Mikhalkov (Idea)
> Nikita Mikhalkov (Dialogue)
> Rustam Ibragimbekov (Dialogue)