The Day the Sun Fell (2015)
1h 19m
Running Time
August 9, 2015Release Date
The Day the Sun Fell (2015)
1h 19m
Running Time
August 9, 2015Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Aya Domenig
Self / Director / Editor
Kiyomi Doi
Self - Aya's grandmother
Shigeru Doi
Self - Aya's grandfather, Red Cross doctor (archive footage)
Sumiko Miyahara
Self - Hiroshima atomic bomb aftermath nurse
Chizuko Uchida
Self
Shuntaro Hida
Self - Former Imperial Japanese Army doctor
Hitoshi Kai
Self - Chairman of Junod Association
Mai Nakata
Self - Fukushima refugee
Shoei Nakata
Self - Mai Nakata's son, Fukushima refugee
Shinzo Abe
Self - Prime minister of Japan
Mrinal Desai
Director of Photography
Mirjam von Arx
Producer
Marcel Vaid
Original Music Composer
Martin Witz
Writer
Gisela Castronari
Editor
Tanja Meding
Producer
Details.
Release DateAugust 9, 2015
Original NameAls die Sonne vom Himmel fiel
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Genres
Wiki.
Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel is a 2015 Swiss documentary. Focusing on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Force on 6 August 1945, it was filmed and produced at locations in the Hiroshima and in the Fukushima prefectures, Japan, and produced by the Japanese-Swiss film-maker Aya Domenig.
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