Days of Eclipse

A young doctor undertakes a journey connected to his work, to an unusual city in Central Asia devoid of population. Mysterious forces interfere with his research: unbearable heat, bizarre personalities, frightening foresight, a conversation with a friend already dead, intervention from aliens. The film is structured based on contradiction: a sound track that does not match the scenes (such as in the association of a muslim woman at prayer with music from a cartoon), colors and textures that change drastically and in an aleatory fashion. In yet another poetic narrative by Sokurov, time is suspended and distorted, disintegrating the relationship between the planes in cinema, between the protagonist and the scenario of the film, between contemporary man and the world.

Was born in 1951 in the city of Podorvikha, Russia. His work, even as a student, was unacceptable to Russian bureaucracy, and he was accused of formalism and of assuming "anti-Soviet views". His first feature, The Lonely Human Voice (1978, 26th Mostra) was refused as a graduating project by the VGIK, the Russian Cinema Institute. Sokurov`s films were shown in Brazil since 1997, at the 21st Mostra, with Mother and Son. He had a retrospective of 33 of his films at 26th Mostra, when was also released the first book in Portuguese about his work, Aleksandr Sokúrov, by publishing house Cosac Naify. Among his most important films are Dolce (1999, 24th Mostra), Elegy of a Voyage (2001, 25th Mostra), The Russian Arc (2002, 26th Mostra), Father and Son (2003, 27th Mostra) Alexandra (2007, 32nd Mostra), in addition to the films that complete the Power Tetralogy: Moloch (1999, 23rd Mostra) about Hitler; Taurus, about Lenin (2001, 26th Mostra), and The Sun, about the Japanese emperor Hirohito (2005, 30th Mostra).

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA