Black Sun (1971)
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.
Director: Aleksei Speshnyov
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Ambroise Mbia as Robert Moussombe |
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Mykola Hrynko as Jean Barthes |
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Gemma Firsova as Nicole Gauthier |
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Bob Chuprov-Tsymba as Jacques Loup |
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Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Mrs. Moussombe |
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Douta Seck as Parlamentary Representative |
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Rein Aren as |
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Igor Komarov as |
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Zana Zanoni as |
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Yuri Volkov as |
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Robert Ross as |
| Directing | Aleksei Speshnyov | Director |
| Writing | Aleksei Speshnyov | Writer |
| Writing | Kuzma Kiselyov | Writer |
| Camera | Yuri Marukhin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yevgeni Ignatyev | Production Design |
| Sound | Lev Solin | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Boris Shangin | Sound Director |
| Writing | Fyodor Konev | Script Editor |
| Editing | Eugenia Volkova | Editor |
| Directing | Yuri Oksanchenko | Assistant Director |
| Directing | M. Marshak | Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Sergei Tsherkasov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | V. Rebrov | VFX Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Grigoriy Khraputskiy | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eleonora Semyonova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Modi Koss | Costume Design |
| Directing | E. Belkevich | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Igor Volchek | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | R. Shatalova | Second Assistant Director |
| Camera | Yevgeni Pchyolkin | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | L. Sushkevich | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Oleg Shklyarevsky | Assistant Camera |
| Art | A. Zaytsev | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | V. Marukhin | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | G. Kharlan | Assistant Production Design |
| Production | Semyon Tulman | Executive Producer |