Ah, this was a great film. Saw it quite some months ago, and really liked it. Island Trees Library called to interloan it for one of their patrons.In Stalinist Russia a decorated Revolutionary War hero shares with his wife and child a loving, passionate family life. He is respected and admired by his neighbors. There is an eccentric family, beautiful countryside, and political paranoia.
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed by political paranoia.
Film-making at its best.
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