烈日灼人

影片的时代背景落在30年代斯大林统治下的前苏联。科托夫（尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰）是红军的光辉领袖，拥有殷实家底和幸福家庭，正在与妻子玛露莎（英格波佳·达库内提 Ingeborga Dapkunaite 饰）、女儿一起在别墅中度过幸福时光。不料，一名不速之客闯进了这里。当他揭开层层乔装的外物时，人们认出了他——一个失踪了十年的没落贵族米迪亚（欧列格·米契柯夫 Oleg Menshikov 饰）。米迪亚的到来犹如地狱派来的使者，随着他娓娓道来的故事，米迪亚和科托夫之间的恩怨纠结、和玛露莎之间的陈年旧情以及随着时代而扭曲的人生，都在故事中一一展开。而更为残酷的是，他带来了一个令科托夫一家陷入绝境的消息……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...