Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #5. Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau

Dau

Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Writer(s): Khrzhanovsky and Vladimir Sorokin
Producer(s): Coproduction Office’s Philippe Bober & Artyom Vasilev
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: TBA

Winner at Rotterdam in 2005 for his debut film 4, Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s artistic ambition is unmatched by any I’ve seen in a very long time. His second feature film has turned into a real life Synecdoche, New York. A production so epic that it mkes Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut appear like an easy shoot. An on-going production that took a life of its own has had thousands of extras, has taken over an entire town and has stretched well beyond the norms in terms of what occurs on set. As described by some published articles, we either have a mad genius or a mad man running the show.

Gist: This is a biographical film about Lev Landau.

Release Date: Crossing my fingers for Cannes this year.