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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… Read more
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1994 · 2h 15m · ★ 82% (27K)
A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
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...
Nikita Mikhalkov
Studio Trite, Camera One
Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Ilin, Alla Kazanskaya, Nina Arkhipova, Avangard Leontyev, André Oumansky, Inna Ulyanova, Lyubov Rudneva, Vladimir Ryabov, Vladimir Belousov, Aleksey Pokatilov, Evgeny Mironov, Tamara Akopova, Natela Abuladze, Ion Aksenti