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...

Oleg Menshikov
as Dmitry

Nikita Mikhalkov
as Sergey

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
as Marusya

Nadezhda Mikhalkova
as Nadya

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Vsevolod Konstantinovich

Svetlana Kryuchkova
as Mokhova

Vladimir Ilin
as Kirik

Alla Kazanskaya
as Lidia Stepanovna

Nina Arkhipova
as Elena Mikhailovna

Avangard Leontyev
as chauffeur