Days of Eclipse
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Days of Eclipse 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). Practically, owns only the names of the characters from the Strugatsky novel.
- 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
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Definitely Maybe (novel)
Definitely Maybe is a sci fi novel written in 1974 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.-Plot summary:Action takes place in the Leningrad, USSR, apparently in the 1970s....
(Billion years to the end of the world). Practically, owns only the names of the characters from the Strugatsky novel.
Plot
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 AsiaMiddle Asia
Middle Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west, to Mongolia in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north. The geographical term has appeared sometime prior to the 20th century in the Russian Empire and was closely associated with the Russian Turkestan and the...
- 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
Guardian angel
A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...
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Cast
The film features a cast of non-professionals.- Aleksei Ananishnov as Malyanov
- Eskender Umarov as Vecherovsky
- Irina Sokolova as Malyanov's Sister
- Vladimir Zamansky as Snegovoy
- Kirill Dudkin as Gluchov
- Aleksei Yankovsky as Snegovoy's Father
- Viktor Belovolsky as Gubar
- Sergei Krylov as Little Boy
Awards
- European Film Awards (Special Award for Best MusicEuropean Film Award for Best Composer- Winners and nominees 1988 – 1992 :- Winners and nominees 2004 – 2010 :-External links:** at the European Film Academy website...
) of European Film AcademyEuropean Film AcademyThe European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :...
of 1988 to the composer Yuri KhaninYuri KhanonYuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov , a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on Juny 16, 1965 in Leningrad... - Nika AwardNika AwardThe Nika Award is a prestigious annual ceremony held by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences which was established in 1987 in Moscow, Russia by Yuli Gusman, and ostensibly modelled on the Academy Awards . Russian Academy Award takes its name from Nike, the goddess of victory...
of the Union of Cinematographers of USSR for the best 1989 sound work to Vladimir Persov - Composer Yuri Khanin was also nominated for 1989 NikaNika AwardThe Nika Award is a prestigious annual ceremony held by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences which was established in 1987 in Moscow, Russia by Yuli Gusman, and ostensibly modelled on the Academy Awards . Russian Academy Award takes its name from Nike, the goddess of victory...
for the best music.