| Days of Eclipse | |
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Written by | Yuri Arabov Pyotr Kadochnikov Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
| Music by | Yuri Khanin (original score) Vladimir Persov (sound) |
| Cinematography | Sergei Yurizditsky |
| Editing by | Leda Semyonova |
| Distributed by | Lenfilm Studio Troitskiy Most Prodimag (2005) (Spain, DVD) |
| Release date(s) | 1988 |
| Running time | 133 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Days of Eclipse (Russian: Дни затмения) is a 1988 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. Screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Pyotr Kadochnikov based on a screenplay by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky and very loosely based on their novel Definitely Maybe (Billion years to the end of the world, Russian: «За миллиард лет до конца света»). Practically, owns only the names of the characters from the Strugatsky novel.
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Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness, any distinctive plot in the film is absent - which is very different from the actual novel on which it is based. The action is set in Middle Asia - Krasnovodsk, Turkmenia.
A Pediatrician, Dmitri Malyanov, a geologist, Vecherovskiy, and a war service engineer, Snegovoy are coming up every day with numerous people and their destinies, with an odd to them eastern reality.
In a half-documentary manner, where black-and-white frames are mixed with color, Sokurov pictured the life of wretched town in Turkmenia, sick children, psychiatric clinic and the Desert, which is populated with a mix of sounds in the background - radio retranslations, symphonic music and multilingual voices.
Long monologues of the characters; boy-angel, who asks non-childish questions and, finally, in the end of the film, the Ascension of the Malyanov's guardian angel.
The film features a cast of non-professionals.
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