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1988 Science-fiction
2h 19min
he Strugatsky Brothers' Billion Years Before the End of the World gets a visionary treatment in Sokurov's moody chronicle of a disillusioned doctor posted to a remote Central Asian village. As the doctor attempts to conduct his research project, a mysterious persecution begins, and a boy appears on his doorstep. Sokurov's enigmatic story fashions its science-fiction source -- the Strugatskys also wrote the source novel behind Tarkovsky's Stalker -- into an existential study while interspersing ethnographic footage from the area. Alexei Ananishnov, the picture of strapping handsome youth, plays the doctor.
| Directed by | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Written by | Yuri Arabov, Pyotr Kadochnikov |
| Original title | Dni zatmeniya |
| Original lang. | Russian, Italian |
| Country | Russia |