Synopsis
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.
Key facts
Original language
Russian
Production companies
Lenfilm
Based on
Definitely Maybe
Awards
European Film Academy Special Jury Award
Stills
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Festival History
- Berlin International Film Festival 1989 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 1989 generic
- European Film Awards 1988 generic
Titles
| Alternate title | Dnizatmeniya | |
| Alternate title | Le Jour de l'éclipse | |
| Alternate title | Journée d'éclipse |
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Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
