Days of Eclipse

Days of Eclipse 1988 Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov Дни затмения

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.

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language Russian

Gneres Drama , Science Fiction

Production Companies Lenfilm , Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie

Release Date 1 December 1988

139 mins