About the film
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross 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 very last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself.
The protagonists of THE DAY THE SUN FELL have made it their task in life to fight tirelessly against the silence reigning over the true medical and social effects of the atomic bomb. By doing so, they address a long suppressed aspect of the past that since the nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima painfully forces itself back into the cousciousness of many Japanese.
Cast
Kiyomi Doi
Chizuko Uchida
Shuntaro Hida
Hitoshi Kai
Mai Nakata
Shoei Nakata
Kayoko Miyaji
Teruko Ueno
Natsuko Ishikawa
Chieko Matsumoto
Tsuyuko Nakakita
Hiromi Tsuji
Hideki Tabii
Kazumi Muratani
Toshimasa Sakaki
Satoshi Urabe
Mioko Doi
Yoshiya Doi
Mieko Doi
Crew
Written and Directed by:
AYA DOMENIG
Produced by:
MIRJAM VON ARX
TANJA MEDING
Cinematography:
MRINAL DESAI
Additional Camera:
SIMON GUY FÄSSLER
MEHDI SAHEBI
AYA DOMENIG
MICHAEL KOMAGATA
Sound Recording:
MAKOTO TAKAOKA
IVO SCHLÄPFER
Editing:
TANIA STÖCKLIN
AYA DOMENIG
GISELA CASTRONARI-JAENSCH
PETRA BECK
Story Consultant:
MARTIN WITZ
Original Score:
MARCEL VAID
Sound Design:
OSWALD SCHWANDER
Re-recording Mixer:
RALF KRAUSE
Sound Studio:
TONBÜRO BERLIN GMBH
Colorist:
ROGER SOMMER
Post Production Studio:
ANDROMEDA FILM AG
Assistant Editing:
ADRIAN AESCHBACHER
Narrators:
JASMIN FRIEDRICH
MASAO FUKUMOTO
Translations:
MIOKO DOI-DOMENIG
KAORI IMAJO
Subtitles:
CATHERINE AGUILAR
CHRISTOPH KOHLER
AYA KOUAMÉ, Babelfisch Translations
Production:
ICAN FILMS
Coproduction:
SRF, SRG SSR, YLE
Supported by:
FEDERAL OFFICE OF CULTURE (EDI) SWITZERLAND
ZURICH FILM FOUNDATION
SUISSIMAGE
ERNST GÖHNER STIFTUNG
ÉDUCATION21 | FILME FÜR EINE WELT, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
SUCCÈS PASSAGE ANTENNE
Technical Specs
Format:
DCP
Running Time:
78 MINUTES
Language Versions:
Japanese (with German narration) and:
English subtitles
German/French subtitles
English/Japanese subtitles