Turn Your Body to the Sun

2021 93 min

Overview

The incredible life story of a Soviet soldier of Tatar descent who was captured by the Nazis during WWII. Today, his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father, trying to understand what made him the man she knew as a child, through his diaries, as well as various personal and public archives and registries. As she accompanies Sana in her journey, filmmaker Aliona van der Horst excavates film archives, to find traces of those millions of Soviet soldiers who were caught in the crossfire of fighting between dictators, who were there but were easily left out of the narrative of the global war.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Netherlands

Spoken Languages

Dutch nl
Russian ru

Flatrate

True Story

Cast

Crew

Aliona van der Horst

Director

Aliona van der Horst

Screenplay

Ilja Roomans

Producer

Posters

External Links

IMDB

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