
Overview
In 2006, Milan and Tomas electrified a school campus and a hospital in a detached Zambian village. After four years, they return for the last time to find out about their system's failures, repair it and hand it over at last. The film follows them through chaotic days as well as pitch black nights and provides a fresh insight into the pitfalls of humanitarian development projects. Short circuits of all sorts, blending and dissolving of different worlds, rituals of gratitude and concepts of solutions. With no attempts to declare or evaluate anything, Solar Eclipse becomes a situation probe examining various forms of light and darkness. Will the two Czech linkboys succeed in lighting up the Zambian bushland?
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Awards
Won the Czech Lion Award for Best Documentary (2011)
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jiří Málek
Details
- Director
- Original title
- Pod sluncem tma
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 3, 2011
- Original language
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
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