The Day the Sun Fell (2015) - Double Feature

No empty Double Features


Please create a new Double Feature

Create a new Double Feature


Tracing the past of her deceased grandfather who worked as a young doctor in the Red Cross hospital of HirSwiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself.oshima after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city, the filmmaker encounters doctors and nurses who went through similar experiences to his at the time. Right up until his death in 1991, her grandfather was never able to speak about his experiences, but the formidable stories and openness of her protagonists bring her closer to his past.


Main Cast: Aya Domenig, Kiyomi Doi, Shigeru Doi, Sumiko Miyahara, Chizuko Uchida, Shuntaro Hida, Hitoshi Kai, Mai Nakata, Shoei Nakata, Shinzo Abe

Director: Aya Domenig

Writer:

Editors: Tania Stöcklin, Aya Domenig, Gisela Castronari, Petra Beck

Cinematographer: Mrinal Desai


Sign In to create Double Features

or

Sign Up if you don't have an account already