#87. Dau
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Writer(s): Khrjanovsky and Vladimir Sorokin
Producers: Philippe Bober and Artyom Vasilev
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: Based on the book by Kora Drobantseva-Landau “Academician Landau: what our life was like”. The plot is based on the life of the great Russian physicist of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize, Lev Landau (1908-1968). Landau – or Dau, which is what his friends called him – was a “child prodigy”; he entered the university at the age of 13. By the age of 20-something, he had become a world-famous theoretical physicist.….(more)
Cast: Teodor Kurentzis and Radmila Schiogoleva
List Worthy Reasons…: Khrzhanovsky’s 2005 debut 4 (Rotterdam winner) was originally conceived as a short and it took four years to complete, which sort of gives us a clue on how much time and effort the Russian filmmaker puts into his craft. Dau was part of 2006’s Cannes Film Festival’s filmmakers’ workshop “L’Atelier du Festival” and was lensed by one of my favorite dp’s in Lol Carwley (Ballast, Better Things, Four Lions and the Sundance 2011 pair HERE and On the Ice.
Release Date/Status?: This will assuredly receive a world preem in Cannes this year.
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