The Sun

During the end of World War II the Japanese Emperor Hirohito meets General Douglas MacArthur who gives him an offer to surrender. The meeting between the two men becomes a meeting between two worlds. This is a film about the inner struggle of a man who is considered to be a living god in his country, and who is forced to see himself dethroned and the Japan he once knew get ”civilized” by the western world. This is the third film in Alexander Sokurov’s series about dictators of the world. He has already depicted Hitler and Lenin in the films Moloch and Telets, and now he looks at the Japanese Emperor and how he is influenced by having absolute power.The film is, much like Hirschbiegel’s Downfall about the last days of Hitler, mostly situated inside a bunker. This bunker is placed under the Imperial Palace and is badly lit, which enhances the prisonlike feeling of it all and gives the film a characteristic coloring.The Sun has already been well received around the world and was recently nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.PETTER CAVALLIN

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Orig. titel
Solntse: Medverkande
Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi: Producent
Igor Kalenov,Marco Mueller & Andrei Sigle: Manus
Yuri Arabov, Jeremy Noble: Foto
Aleksandr Sokurov: Musik
Andrei Sigle: Talat språk
English, Japanese, Russian