The film Days of Eclipse is based on a novel by famous Soviet science fiction writers — brothers Arcady and Boris Strugatsky. The action has been transferred to the Central Asia where a young Russian doctor gives treatment to children and tries his hand at writing. Introducing us a young contemporary at the crossroads (for the first time in Sokurov's work), this film becomes the first part of a cinema trilogy.
This character, whose formative years pass in the situation of broken and showing its cracks way of life, becomes a link between three of Sokurov's films. The whole 'trilogy' is joined together by the bitter irony regarding worn–out sacral symbols. Films Days of Eclipse, The Second Circle, The Stone, made in different years, are linked up with each other by one common plot: permanent co–existence of real everyday life, of so to say daily routine, with messages or messengers from Nowhere.
The young athlete from Days of Eclipse played by young non–professional performer Alexei Ananishnov is no less an archaic symbol of the former power of the collapsed Soviet empire than a recording of Brezhnev's speech sounding in the film or huge plaster cast Hammer and Sickle sticking out in the desert.
Dmitry Malyanov from Strugatsky's novel A Milliard Years before the End of the World has nothing in common with the character of Days of Eclipse beside the name. In fact, for Sokurov's hero the end of the world has already come and the border of this end has fallen on his life. The character who has been brought to the world of alien climate, alien speech, alien customs, learns not to be surprised at the cases of violence against others and himself — in order to survive, speaks to a dead body, tames and feeds exotic reptiles, and, on top of that, meets an angel appearing as a child.
This film was successful with the cinema audience of Perestroika years. Alexei Ananishnov later played the main part in one more film by Sokurov Mother and Son.
The film has been listed by the European Cinema Academy among 100 best movies of the XX century.
Alexandra Tuchinskaya
English translation by Anna Shoulgat, © 2002.
Prizes and awards:
1988. Special Award Felix of the European Cinema Academy to the composer Y. Khanin.
1988. NIKA Award of the Filmmakers' Union of the USSR to the Director of Sound V. Persov as Best Director of Sound.
1989. Laureate of the competition for Best Russian film of the year.
Award of the Filmmakers' Union of the USSR to S. Yurizditsky as Best Director of Photography.

安妮•布外兹（Tisa Farrow 饰）的父亲驾船前往某小岛，但此后三个月音讯全无。某日，父亲的小船漂回纽约，船上空无一人。当警卫员检查船舱时，却遭到一个丧尸的袭击。记者彼得•怀斯特（Ian McCulloch 饰）对此事颇为好奇，他和安妮相约前往那座神秘小岛。
当他们到达目的地时，却惊奇地发现，当地伏都教的诅咒令人们染上一种怪病，且可使死人复活。但复活后的人只是嗜血如命的恐怖丧尸。他们在岛上遇见了莫纳德医生（Richard Johnson 饰），为了活命，三个人必须通力合作，找到治疗这种怪病的方法……

一座古老的资本主义城市，天空晦暗阴霾，冰冷潮湿，大街小巷尽是让人绝望的气息，生活于此的人们仿佛行尸走肉，全然不知前进的未来与方向。在一座公寓内，私人侦探艾什（詹姆斯·阿诺德·泰勒James Arnold Taylor 配音）惆怅困顿，他的银行帐户已经空空如也，门厅寥落的他已经做好退出这一行的打算。正在此时，一通神秘电话打了进来，对方拟雇用艾什追查传奇黑客崔妮蒂（凯瑞-安·莫斯 Carrie-Anne Moss 配音）的踪迹。起出准备拒绝的艾什，看在巨额预付款的份上最终接受此案。
然而这并非一项简单的任务，此前已有三位侦探为此一死一疯一失踪，崔妮蒂的身份似乎关联一个天大的秘密，以及难以想象的危险……

Strit and her friends live in the future where the Earth has become so polluted that they must live underground. As legend has it, a creature that “Walks on Air” will guide them to a place where there are blue skies and green meadows.Set in a world so ravaged by pollution that the humans have been forced underground, this distinguished animated cautionary tale warns of the consequences of our current disregard for the environment as it tells the story of a young girl and her friends who set off on an exciting quest for the pristine, natural paradise of their dreams.

族里最年长的女性罗莎琳认为，上帝在战火中遗弃了这个世界，仅留下黄沙一片，而在沙漠的某处，有个可怕的东西正静心地等人上门。长久以来，这东西一再地醒来，从空中悄悄地朝手提箱、咖啡壶、暖气、床垫、洗脸盆等唾骂著，把沙漠变得诡异且令人生畏，这东西名叫Makou。每个晚上，游牧民族们都隐身於井的另一端躲著Makou，罗莎琳也就在这儿遇见葛雯。葛雯是个13岁的女孩，族人收养了她，但罗莎琳已经预知她将为族人带来麻烦。第二天，葛雯和甦醒的Makou整个晚上都待在沙丘，之后自行脱困，回来后她告诉族人大家都误会Makou了，「死亡」已经自首那些事都是他干的。罗莎琳於是带葛雯走了好长的路，穿过沙漠来到怪物的家。这是「死亡」的家吗？不，这是有著一本书的另一个城市，这本书是上帝仅留给居民们的东西，它是名为Manufrance品牌的消费目录，里面图文并茂，将她们的疑难一一化解。

玛吉和男友都是脾气不好的人，以至玛吉终于带着她的四个孩子逃到一个妇女避难所。一天，玛吉外出时避难所发生了一场火灾，她和长子肖恩严重烧伤。通过调查发现：玛吉曾将孩子们反锁在房间里，但没有把钥匙留给避难所其他妇女。所以，玛吉应对此负部分责任。结果，她的孩子们全部被带走，处于社会公益服务部门的照管之下。后来玛吉和霍尔赫开始了新生活，霍尔赫成为一名快餐厨师，玛吉也生下了他们的婴儿，一切都很美满。然而不久医疗保健工作者和社会公益服务人员登门拜访他们。社会公益服务部门的工作人员与玛吉的爱吵架的邻居闲聊，这位邻居胡乱编造了玛吉和霍尔赫关系不好的谎言。警察抱走了他们的婴儿，社会公益服务部门也开始审查这对夫妇的关系。玛吉的邻居出庭作证，诬告霍尔赫打了玛吉。玛吉又怀孕了。在医院里，她的婴儿刚刚生下来就从她身边被人抱走了。玛吉知道后十分气愤。尽管两夫妇关系十分紧张，但他们还是一起生活下去了。最后玛吉和霍尔赫获得批准，如果他们将来再生产，可以保留三个孩子。但是他们不能要回头两个孩子，更谈不上玛吉以前生下的四个孩子了。

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.

这是城市里宁静的一天，阳光明媚，一道彩虹横跨城市的外延。少女阳子与朋友煲电话粥，时近中午，她的小猫由纪却还不来吃饭。要知道，由纪从来不会错过自己的午餐。阳子有些着急，她出门四下寻找，几个男孩子告诉她曾在传说中的“鬼屋”见到小猫。阳子径直前往。
在这里，阳子发现诸多超自然的现象：悬浮地面上的易拉罐、凭空消失的物体、局部下雨的顶棚和缓慢飞行的鸟儿。男孩们似乎对此颇为熟悉，他们快乐地玩着反地心引力的游戏，阳子也开始痴迷其中。欢乐的孩子们不知道，有些人并不希望他们开到这番景象……

Elodie and Elias have been living by themselves ever since most of the human race has disappeared from the face of the earth. However, with the unexpected arrival of Gabriel, a boy a bit older than themselves, their harmonic relationship is about to come to an end.

Stanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse. All he wants to do is get back to his owner...

A baby squirrel asks his grandfather to tell him what happened to all the men. The old squirrel reveals that all the humans were killed years ago in a terrible war. The surviving animals started a new society, based on the lessons taught in the Bible.

世界已被核战争蹂躏。星球被冰冻，辐射杀死了在“穹顶”之外冒险的任何人或任何东西。索夫特是人类最后残余的牧羊人，他们聚集在一起，等待一艘被称为“方舟”的神秘飞船的救援。他在人群中徘徊，执行日常任务；防止士气低落、招妓、镇压叛乱，有时还给饥饿的人提供食物。但随着“穹顶”的真实和险恶本质逐渐曝光，索夫特必须问自己，人类是否值得拯救……

They have evolved over the course of millions of years, leaving them quite capable of fending for themselves in the bamboo forest. One day they crossed paths with the most industrious of primates – man. The story of an animal species who has to share the most private aspects of its life with human beings.

此片是波兰导演皮奥特尔·舒尔金八十年代科幻三部曲的第三章，也是最后一章，三部分在情节上没有直接关联，但在主题上具有相关性。一本世界遭受核战争的科幻小说，一部荒凉的后启示录。287138号囚犯接到一个极其重要的任务，在空间监狱船里穿梭，降落到一个无人居住的星球，其居民视他为“英雄”和“贵族”，但英雄主义和英勇行为有代价：他必须犯下一个罪行，然后在一个光荣的仪式上被公开处决。这个新世界的囚犯所遭遇的一切，其实是对我们现实世界的戏仿和夸张：美化暴力、痴迷媒体、官僚主义等。

John Ellman (Boris Karloff) has been framed for murder by a gang of racketeers. He is unfairly tried and despite the fact that his innocence has been proven, he is sent to the electric chair and executed. Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) retrieves his dead body and revives it, as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body and discover what happens to the soul after death.
Dr. Beaumont's use of a mechanical heart to revive the patient foreshadows modern medicine's mechanical heart to keep patients alive during surgery. Although John Ellman has no direct knowledge of anyone wishing to frame him for the murder before he is executed, he gains an innate sense of knowing those who are responsible after he is revived. Ellman takes no direct action against his framers; however, he seeks them out, wishing to know why they had him killed. Each dies a horrible death, and in the end it is their own guilt that causes their deaths.
Confronting the last two villains, Ellman is shot. Having fulfilled his divine mission to bring about justice, he dies, just before he would have explained death and the afterlife to the curious Dr. Beaumont. Beaumont is warned not to continue his experiments, citing the Biblical Scripture, "For the LORD thy God is a jealous God (Deut. 6:15a)."

少年迈克·卡尔·帕伯（克雷顿·怀特森Clayton Watson 配音）近一段时间甚为困扰，他梦见自己从楼顶坠，坠落的过程，它能感受耳边的风声和气流的流动，能看到天空一瞬而过的飞鸟，一切的一切都无比真实，令他不禁产生“梦是真实，现实是梦”疑惑。清晨醒来，他通过网络漫无目的地求助，渴望有人能解答他的问题。终于有人回复了他，让迈克对现实的虚幻性更多了几分不确定。太阳高升，迈克照常上课，他的手机铃声突然响起，即使关机后也照响不误。听筒里传来了尼奥（基努·李维斯 Keanu Reeves 配音）的声音，尼奥告诉他，那些人已经知道迈克了知了虚拟世界的实相，正从四面八方向迈克奔来……

The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.

两名科学家马克思（Jerzy Stuhr 饰）和阿尔伯特（Olgierd Lukaszewicz 饰）志愿参加一个科学试验，他们将被放入密闭的容器中，以半死的状态度过三年时光。然而实验才刚开始，第三次世界大战爆发，地球上的国家均被卷入战争。这两个倒霉的科学家一睡就是五十年，醒来后赫然发现自己身处一个奇异的地下社会：在这里，女性是绝对的领导者，而且他们俩很可能就是现存的仅有的男性。
对于喜欢拈花惹草的马克思来说，这里无疑就是天堂；而古板木讷的阿尔伯特则百思不得其解，他要想办法摆脱女人帝国的控制，逃脱出去……

一个神秘的来自另一颗行星的怪物随着陨星落到地球上，它就像一滴巨大的果冻，附近小镇的人们不相信已经目睹怪物破坏力的一些青少年，与此同时，这只巨大的果冻怪物继续变得更大。