Drama · Soviet Union · 1971 · 1h 37m

Black Sun

Чёрное солнце

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Director
Aleksei Speshnyov
Cast
Ambroise Mbia as Robert Moussombe Mykola Hrynko as Jean Barthes Gemma Firsova as Nicole Gauthier Bob Chuprov-Tsymba as Jacques Loup Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Mrs. Moussombe Douta Seck as Parlamentary Representative
Crew
Yuri Marukhin — Director of Photography Eugenia Volkova — Editor Lev Solin — Original Music Composer Aleksei Speshnyov — Writer Kuzma Kiselyov — Writer Yevgeni Ignatyev — Production Design
Synopsis

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

Key Collaborators
Aleksei Speshnyov Director Yuri Marukhin Director of Photography Eugenia Volkova Editor Lev Solin Original Music Composer Aleksei Speshnyov Writer Kuzma Kiselyov Writer Yevgeni Ignatyev Production Design Eleonora Semyonova Costume Design Modi Koss Costume Design
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