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.
Booking from: Tuesday, 24th February 2009
Booking until: Thursday, 21st May 2009
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Playing at the Lyttelton.
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.
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