Days of Eclipse / Дни затмения (1988)
DVD-Rip | Russian | Subtitle: English (not built in) | 2:11:16 | 704 x 320 | 25fps | XviD | mp3 - 128 kb/s | 1.98 GB
Genre: Drama
DVD-Rip | Russian | Subtitle: English (not built in) | 2:11:16 | 704 x 320 | 25fps | XviD | mp3 - 128 kb/s | 1.98 GB
Genre: Drama
The film was include in 100 Best Movies Of XX Century list by European Film Academy.
Won OCIC Award - Honorable Mention on Berlin International Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury on European Film Awards, Nika Awards for Best Sound
Days of Eclipse filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness, any distinct plot in the film is absent. Action set in Middle Asia - Krasnovodsk, Turkmenia.
Children doctor Dmitri Malyanov, geologist Vecherovskiy and war service engineer Snegovoy are colliding every day with a 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, psychiatrical clinic and the Desert with a mixed sound in the background - radio retranslatons, symphony 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.