25/6 毒太陽/Утомлённые солнцем（a.k.a Burnt by the Sun）

Director : Nikita Mikhalkov (俄羅斯/Russia)
Writer: Rustam Ibragimbekov
1994/135min/Russian, French/Color

善於處理民族與國家議題的前蘇聯導演米哈高夫，這次將影片的時代背景落在30年代史達林統治下的前蘇聯。一天的故事，兩個男人，一個女人和一個小孩，所能見到的恰恰是在光明而美好有如太陽的幸福願景中發生的許許多多殘酷迫害和屠殺。如果你看見過極權主義者的集中營，你還會相信太陽是我們生命從一而終的希望嗎？幸福，就是這麼近又那麼遠…

Plot Summary:
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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