Aya Domenig - Switzerland-Japan / 2015 / 80’ mts
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
consciousness of many Japanese. For the director Aya Domenig, it was very important
to find survivors who represent another way of dealing with the past than her
grandfather did: “The protagonists I have chosen for my film belong to the very few
who, unlike my grandfather, have made it their life task not to keep silent. They are
persons with great courage who deeply impress me.”
https://www.thedaythesunfell.com/trailer
