Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel
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| Directed by | Aya Domenig |
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Mirjam von Arx Tanja Meding |
| Written by | Aya Domenig |
| Music by | Marcel Vaid |
| Cinematography | Desai Mrinal |
| Edited by | Tania Stöcklin |
| Distributed by | Ican Films GmbH and Look Now! in Switzerland. |
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78 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | Japanese and German |
Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel is a 2015 Swiss documentary film. Focussing on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Force on 6 August 1945, it was filmed and produced at locations in the Hiroshima and in the Fukushima prefectures, Japan, and produced by the Japanese-Swiss filmmaker Aya Domenig.
The filmmaker Aya Domenig is of Japanese-Swiss origin and intended to trace the life of her grandfather – after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Force on 6 August 1945 – Shigeru Doi worked as a doctor in a Red Cross hospital in Hiroshima, and the filmmaker tries to find closer to him. Aya Domenig meets Chizuko Uchida (born 1923), a former nurse, her grandmother and Shuntaro Hida (born 1920), a doctor, the second Hibakusha (被爆者) who is portrayed in the documentary film – they have a similar fate as the filmmaker's grandfather who throughout his life never spoke about what he had experienced. While researching her film in Hiroshima, on 11 March 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurs, and the filmmaker's intention takes a turn.
Uchida is still involved in a citizens' initiative related to the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, and she gave to a mother and her son who were refugees from Fukushima a new home. The other contemporary witness, Shuntaro Hida, still reads on his experiences in Hiroshima, but he no longer participates in the annual commemoration at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, because he calls it "hypocrisy", and claims that the long-term consequences of nuclear radiation would be played down by the authorities and the suffering of the victims is still tabooized.
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