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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Oleg Menshikov | ... | Dmitriy | |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | ... | Sergey | |
| Ingeborga Dapkunaite | ... | Marusya (as Ingeborga Dapkunayte) | |
| Nadezhda Mikhalkova | ... | Nadya (as Nadya Mikhalkova) | |
| Vyacheslav Tikhonov | ... | Vsevolod Konstantinovich | |
| Svetlana Kryuchkova | ... | Mokhova | |
| Vladimir Ilin | ... | Kirik | |
| Alla Kazanskaya | ... | Lidiya Stepanovna | |
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Nina Arkhipova | ... | Elena Mikhaylovna |
| Avangard Leontev | ... | Shofer | |
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André Oumansky | ... | Filipp (as Andre Umanskiy) |
| Inna Ulyanova | ... | Olga Nikolaevna | |
| Lyubov Rudneva | ... | Lyuba | |
| Vladimir Ryabov | ... | Ofitser NKVD | |
| Vladimir Belousov | ... | Sotrudnik NKVD | |
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village 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... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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You know, here, in Moscow, the critics do their best to show that Nikita Mikhalkov makes popular pictures which aren't to be considered serious. To hear that "The Barber of Siberia" is a stupid sentimental movie is quite common nowadays.
But the more time passes from his next in turn production, the more a "strange" effect seems to take place: his films at last are rated according to their true value and not to somebody's opinion about them. It is always hard to say that something new is really good, but some time later...
"Utoml'ennye Solntsem" is not a very emotional movie. I don't suppose you'd cry when watching it. But my opinion is that it's a brilliant one. It is historically authentic (I've studied that period of time quite carefully so I think I have a right to say so). And no-one on this site seems to notice the love story in the film, which actually brought about the whole tragedy (remember, Kotov made Mitya work for NKVD). It was marvellously played by Oleg Men'shikov (my favourite actor) and Ingeborga Dapkunaite, a remarkable Lithuanian actress. And Mikhalkov himself, of course - "Kot" means "cat", by the way. Many people endow him with the characteristics of Kotov which only shows that he played his role well. A good actor is always attributed his character's traits.
But still, for me the main feature of the film is the world of Mitya's soul created by Men'shikov. A young, talented boy with brilliant prospects is what Mitya was. He gets involved in the war, goes through many ordeals, then comes home and falls in love with the girl he knew from her very birth, Marousya. But their happiness is too short. He is given a choice: to work for NKVD or...to commit suicide. He's only 24, and he wants to live. But hope for future slowly disappears as life goes on, cruel and senseless. When Mitya appears on the dacha of Marousya's parents, his soul is almost a wreck. But the last chance is killed when he sees that, after a suicide attempt, after months of despair, Marousya has married Kotov and doesn't want to go through everything again. Therefore Mitya begins to fulfill his revenge.