The Day the Sun Fell

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Aya Domenig

Self

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Kiyomi Doi

Self - Aya's grandmother

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Shigeru Doi

Self - Aya's grandfather, Red Cross doctor (archive footage)

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Sumiko Miyahara

Self - Hiroshima atomic bomb aftermath nurse

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Chizuko Uchida

Self

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Shuntaro Hida

Self - Former Imperial Japanese Army doctor

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Hitoshi Kai

Self - Chairman of Junod Association

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Mai Nakata

Self - Fukushima refugee

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Mirjam von Arx Tanja Meding
Editing	Editor	Tania Stöcklin Gisela Castronari Aya Domenig Petra Beck
Sound	Original Music Composer	Marcel Vaid
Camera	Director of Photography	Mrinal Desai
Directing	Director	Aya Domenig
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