Days of Eclipse (1989)

  • NR
  • 10/06/1989 (NL)
  • Drama, Science Fiction
  • 2h 19m

Overview

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.

Aleksandr Sokurov

Director

Yuriy Arabov

Screenplay

Pyotr Kadochnikov

Screenplay

Arkadiy Strugatskiy

Novel

Boris Strugatskiy

Novel

Cast

Aleksei Ananishnov's headshot

Aleksei Ananishnov

Malyanov
Eskender Umarov's headshot

Eskender Umarov

Vecherovsky
Irina Sokolova's headshot

Irina Sokolova

Malyanov's Sister
Vladimir Zamanskiy's headshot

Vladimir Zamanskiy

Snegovoy
Kirill Dudkin's headshot

Kirill Dudkin

Gluchov
Aleksey Yankovskiy's headshot

Aleksey Yankovskiy

Snegovoy's Father
Viktor Belovolskiy's headshot

Viktor Belovolskiy

Gubar
Sergei Krylov's headshot

Sergei Krylov

Little Boy

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