The epic final chapter of the WWII saga, Burnt by the Sun (1994). Divisional Commander Kotov returns home during World War II after having been cruelly betrayed, narrowly escaping execution for treason and all but reduced to dust in a prison camp. Discovering that everything has changed and that he will have to fight again for his name and his honour, Kotov once again bears arms and struggles forth.
It's 1936 and respected hero of the Bolshevik Revolution Colonel Segui Kotov is living an idyllic life in the Russian countryside with his wife Maroussia and daughter Nadia. One glorious summer's day his serenity is interupted by the arrival of the mysterious Dimitri a former lover of Maroussia who had disappeared from her life ten years earlier. With songs and stories their new guest charms everyone but Kotov soon begins to suspect more sinister motives for his re-appearance. Set against the growing threat of Stalin's regime of terror Nikita Mikhalkov's poignant Oscar-winning film lingers in the memory long after viewing.
In 1905 Jane Callaghan a once beautiful American writes to her son at a famous military academy. Her memories take us back twenty years to when she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke's patronage to sponsor his invention - a massive machine to harvest the forests of Siberia. In the course of her travels Jane meets two men who will change her life forever. A handsome young cadet Andrei Tolstoy with whom she shares her pas
WW2, war-torn Russia, the Nazi's are advancing while Stalin is terrorising his own people. As the Nazis attack, bombing villages and destroying bridges, we witness the hope and pride of a nation as former enemies unite, re-group and fight, united against the twin evils destroying their homeland.
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars in this two-part Russian war sequel to 'Burnt By the Sun' (1994). Told in two films, 'Exodus' (2010) and 'Citadel' (2011), and set during World War II, the story follows General Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Mikhalkov) who is now in combat on the battlefield, having survived the death sentence he received in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. As the Nazis invade the USSR, the nation must band together to defend their country.
Colonel Serguei Kotov, a military hero of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, is enjoying a contented life in his country home with his wife Maroussia and young daughter Nadia. Into this idyllic setting enters Dimitri, a ruthless man on an evil mission, whose affair with Maroussia ten years earlier ended with his mysterious disappearance.
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