Decorated hero Colonel Kotov 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 tangled web of sexual jealousy, retribution and political backstabbing, Colonel Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule.
Set at the beginning of Josef Stalin's Great Reign of 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 star.
