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DAU (2026)
Directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Drama, Thriller · 3h 15m
Inspired by the physicists who built the Soviet atomic bomb, the film DAU follows a brilliant Greek-born physicist from 1928 through four tumultuous decades in the USSR. Driven to uncover the laws of the universe, the idealistic Dau is drawn into state service to help create one of history’s deadliest weapons. Inside a secret research institute, life is governed by scientific ambition, power, surveillance and privilege. As his autonomy erodes, Dau seeks freedom beyond his marriage through a succession of affairs, gradually losing both himself and his capacity to love. At once an intimate portrait of a man in pursuit of happiness and freedom and a vast fresco of a society founded on violence and ideology, DAU traces the small compromises that shape a life and alter the course of history.
Cast
Teodor Currentzis
Radmila Shegoleva
Anatoly Vasiliev
Vladimir Azhippo
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Maria Nafpliotou
Ekaterina Andreeva
Crew
- Director
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Writer
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin, Ilya Permyakov
- Director of Photography
- Jürgen Jürges, Manuel Alberto Claro, Lol Crawley
- Editor
- Ilya Permyakov, Rob Myers
- Producer
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Philippe Bober, Leonid Lebedev
Details
- Release date
- 2026-09-09
- Runtime
- 3h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian, English, Greek
- Countries
- Germany, France, Sweden, Russia
- Production
- Société Parisienne de Production, ARTE France Cinéma, Phenomen Berlin, Essential Filmproduktion, Plattform Produktion, WDR