Days of Eclipse
6.9
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.
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Cast
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Aleksei Ananishnov
Malyanov
Known for
Mother and Son
Eskender Umarov
Vecherovsky
No other roles listed
Irina Sokolova
Malyanov's Sister
Known for
War
Moloch
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Snegovoy
Known for
The Steamroller and the Violin
Trial on the Road
Kirill Dudkin
Gluchov
No other roles listed
Aleksey Yankovskiy
Snegovoy's Father
Viktor Belovolskiy
Gubar
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Aleksandr Sokurov Director · Yuriy Arabov Screenplay Pyotr Kadochnikov Screenplay
Director
Aleksandr Sokurov
Screenplay
Yuriy Arabov
Screenplay
Pyotr Kadochnikov
Author
Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Author
Boris Strugatskiy
Composer
Yuri Khanon
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Burov
Cinematographer
Sergey Yurizditskiy
Editor
Leda Semyonova
Production designer
Yelena Amshinskaya
Costume designer
Lidiya Kryukova
First release December 1, 1988 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Дни затмения
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 1, 1988
Theatrical · Source: IMDb
No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
October 6, 1989 · Theatrical
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