The Sun | |
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Directed by | Alexander Sokurov |
Written by | Yuri Arabov Jeremy Noble |
Produced by | Igor Kallenof Marco Mueller Andrei Sigle Alexander Rodnyansky |
Starring | Issey Ogata Robert Dawson |
Cinematography | Alexander Sokurov |
Edited by | Sergei Ivanov |
Music by | Andrei Sigle |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | Russia Italy Switzerland France |
Languages | Japanese English |
The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film directed by Alexander Sokurov, depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. It is the third film in a trilogy by director Aleksandr Sokurov that includes Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.[1] The film was entered in the 55th Berlin International Film Festival. It received generally positive reviews from critics.