Days of Eclipse

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov

Top cast

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Aleksei Ananishnov

Malyanov

E

Eskender Umarov

Vecherovsky

Irina Sokolova

Malyanov's Sister

Vladimir Zamanskiy

Snegovoy

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Kirill Dudkin

Gluchov

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Aleksey Yankovskiy

Snegovoy's Father

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Viktor Belovolskiy

Gubar

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Sergei Krylov

Little Boy

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