Burnt by the Sun

The film Burnt by the Sun was made in 1994, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and takes place in the 1930’s. At this time there were random arrests by the KGB to capture those they believed to be an enemy of the USSR. It is a story of an undercover NKVD agent named Mitya who goes back to his friends in order to capture a new member of the family Colonel Kotov. This movie does a great job of showing the viewer the Colonels relationship to his family including his wife Marusia and daughter Nadya. Its a very close loving family who all rely on one another. The end of the film was extremely tragic to me. It seemed so cruel when Mitya starts to whistle the song Burnt by the Sun (the song the Colonel daughter sings all the time) to Kotov right after they beat him for fussing around. It seems like the 1930's were a scary time for everyone, weather they were actually enemies of the USSR or not.