The sun [videorecording] / Nikola-Film, Proline-Film, Downtown Pictures, Mact Productions and Riforma Film ; producers, Igor Kalenov, Andrei Sigle, Marco Muller ; script by Yury Arabov ; directed by Aleksandr Sokurov.
Chronicles the events leading up to Emperor Hirohito's momentous speech, the historic renunciation of his divine status, and his meetings with General Douglas MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the occupying American forces, who advises his own president not to declare the Japanese leader a war criminal.
