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In the days when Russian revolutionaries attempted to conquer the world,
Trotsky was shouting:
“If the sun is bourgeois, we will stop the sun too!”

In 1987, the bright days of the revolution were left behind and the end of the road was in sight. A cinema festival held in Karlovy-Vary, Czechoslovakia, brings together director Jiri Serecka, who is no longer allowed to make films, and his friend, the free French producer Charles Bragat, who has been supporting the opposition for many years.

Surrounding them are their old Stalinist companions, some comrades stuck between the necessity of rebellion and survival, Russians, a strange American casino manager, police officers and German tourists, the conquerors of the future. Meanwhile, Alice Ferrier, a woman trying to forget her past regarding her communist parents, appears on the scene. He is passing to the East for the first time. And as soon as he sets foot here, images of his past appear in his mind: In the fifties, the happy times of the French communists, student rooms, the dissolution of the Humanité newspaper, the bombs of the OAS... In this world of suspicion and tension, where everyone keeps some secrets, it is these secrets and tensions that bring the three of them together. are lies. Friction and conflict are inevitable. On the other hand, the feeling of guilt, longing for the past and pasts far from innocence bring them closer to each other.

We Will Stop the Sun is a novel about people who hold a mirror to each other with their common past. A kind of reckoning; with oneself and one's past. At the same time, it is a bittersweet journey to the dreams of the communists that were destroyed with the Berlin Wall on a November evening in 1989…



Number of Pages: 416

Print Year: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Publications

< strong>First Printing Year: 2010

Number of Pages: 416

Language: Turkish