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The Day the Sun Fell
Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel
20151h 19m7.2out of 105 votes
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.
Directed by Aya Domenig
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Aya Domenig
Self
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
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