Dau

The stories of Dau seem to be made up. Although it was 2006, a seemingly insane director forced individuals to consume Soviet-era canned food by paying them with that currency. The movie was shot in Ukraine. Unless everyone was a member of a cult and worked for free. Or it was an experiment and they were all in jail. This is coming from extras and production helpers who left to avoid it.

Ilya Khrzhanovsky was not to be referred to as a director. He was to be referred to as the Institute's Head of the Set or Boss, according to signs on the Institute set. Even though no one is filming, people maintain their character all the time in the enormous scale recreation of a Soviet city known as The Institute. People who broke character were penalized.

Russian physicist Lev Landau was meant to be the subject of the film. The director insisted on a true genius, not an actress, playing the part. He also insisted on genuine people, not actors playing extras, thus the cast and crew went through 210,000 regular citizens, dressing and photographing 50 of them each day.

The director spent at least six years editing the movie after the shooting. It was released in Paris in 12 parts in 2019. Although there are plans to show all of it at some point, only the first two sections have ever been made accessible for streaming.

Directed by:Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Written by: Ilya KhrzhanovskyKora Landau-Drobantseva (original book)Vladimir SorokinSusanne Marian