'This one's a cracker. Based on a Russian/French movie that won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1994, Burnt by the Sun starts out like something by Chekhov and ends up as a gripping Stalinist thriller' Daily Telegraph.
'Burnt By The Sun brings Russian history into riveting close-up' Evening Standard.
'Rory Kinnear brilliantly conveys Mitia's mix of vindictiveness and self-hatred, Michelle Dockery's Maroussia has a luminous, tragic beauty' The Guardian.
Colonel Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. I
Poised at the beginning of Stalin's Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.
Peter Flannery adapts Nikita Mikhalkov's 1994 feature film which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. Ciaran Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Michelle Dockery lead the cast.
