A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
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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Oleg Menshikov
Dmitry
Nikita Mikhalkov
Sergey
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Marusya
Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadya
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vsevolod Konstantinovich
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Mokhova
Vladimir Ilin
Kirik
Alla Kazanskaya
Lidia Stepanovna
Nina Arkhipova
Elena Mikhailovna
Avangard Leontyev
chauffeur
André Oumansky
Filipp
Inna Ulyanova
Olga Nikolaevna
Lyubov Rudneva
Lyuba
Vladimir Ryabov
NKVD officer
Vladimir Belousov
NKVD employee
Nikita Mikhalkov
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Screenplay
Leonid Vereshchagin
Executive Producer
Michel Seydoux
Producer
Vilen Kalyuta
Director of Photography
Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer
Enzo Meniconi
Editor
Natalya Ivanova
Costume Design
Aleksandr Samulekin
Production Design
Vladimir Aronin
Production Design
