Days of Eclipse

Days of Eclipse (1988)

Дни затмения

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

Date of release
1988-12-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (34)
Runtime
2h 19m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction
Director
Aleksandr Sokurov

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Definitely Maybe
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: European Film Academy Special Jury Award

Days of Eclipse is a 1988 Soviet film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The screenplay is by Yuri Arabov and Pyotr Kadochnikov based on a screenplay by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, which is in turn based on their 1977 novel Definitely Maybe.

Production

In the novel, the protagonist who works on research in astrophysics is similarly confounded by a mysterious force trying to interfere and impede his research. Days of Eclipse is filmed using unusual cinematographic techniques in a half-documentary manner where black-and-white and sepia frames alternate with color. Sokurov chose for the film's location the town in Turkmenistan where he had spent his childhood as the son of an Army officer.

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