FIRST DAU FOOTAGE!! dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Musical performance in production of DAU dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky
DAU is a Russian film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. The film deals with the life of the Nobel Prize winning Soviet scientist Lev Landau. The movie is one of Russia's largest and most controversial cinematic projects.[1]
The preparation for the shooting for the film began in 2006, whereas the actual shooting started in 2008 and went on for three years. The world premiere of the movie was intended to take place at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[2] In 2017 The Telegraph reported that the film is still being edited and the production company is quoted as saying, “Our project consists of over 700 hours of material all shot on 35mm out of which the company is making feature films, TV series and a slate of science and art documentaries, as well as a trans-media project”.[3]
The film was shot at various sites in Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom and Denmark.[4] Most of the film was shot on a specially constructed set called The Institute in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. The Institute was the largest film set in Europe, the area totalling 12,000 sq. meters. The set was a dynamic creative reconstruction of a Soviet restricted-access Institute in 1938-1968, located in Moscow. Some actors lived in The Institute in character 24 hours a day.[5] The destruction of the set became an integral part of the story and was shot on 8 November 2011.
Teodor Currentzis, a Greek classical conductor, plays the title role of Dau while Radmila Shchegoleva, the only professional actor in the cast, plays his wife. Alexei Blinov lead technical development for feature film along with acting in it as Prof. Blinov. The cast also included: Anatoly Vasiliev, Dmitry Chernyakov, Olga Shkabarnya, Peter Sellars, Romeo Castellucci, Carsten Höller, Marina Abramović, David Gross, Shing-Tung Yau, Nikita Nekrasov, Carlo Rovelli, James Fallon, and others.
In July 2018 the project release was announced and preregistration was opened on the web page DAU.xxx. The release was scheduled in Berlin for October 2018 (with similar happenings following in Paris and London) as a month-long, full time operating, immersive art installation, featuring a replica of the Berlin Wall.[6] The city ultimately did not approve the plans, as there was too little time for authorities to check for safety for an event of these proportions, with the production company having submitted the plans less than a month prior to the event.[7] The project will now launch in Paris in a rare collaboration between the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Theatre de la Ville on January 25th 2019. The Executive Producer of the international release is the former London Gallerist, Martine d'Anglejan-Chatillon.[8]
WORLD PREMIERE - PARIS
From 24 January to 17 February 2019, Paris hosts the world premiere of DAU. Three major partners - two municipal theaters, The Théâtre du Chatelet and the Théâtre de la Ville as well as the Centre Pompidou - come together to offer audiences an unprecedented experience: the discovery of a complex world where one gets lost and found for a duration of six hours to an unlimited period of time. From dusk to dawn, the three sites are linked in the sky by the Red Triangle, a light sculpture inspired by the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century. DAU is cinematic, theatrical, scientific, psychological, architectural, visual and performative. DAU has to be experienced, lived, played, felt, constructed and deconstructed. It is a metamorphosis that is today proposed in Paris, in the intermediary spaces of the city’s twin theatres. Both theatres have been undergoing renovation and are exceptionally opening their doors to the public, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, for the duration of the event. At the Centre Pompidou, the world premiere of an immersive installation will be presented during the museum’s opening hours. DAU, initially conceived as a biopic on a Soviet physicist, was initiated by the Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who brings together a pluridisciplinary international artistic team. Many of the artists involved in the project now act as its ambassadors: artists Marina Abramović, Carsten Höller, Boris Mikhailov and Philippe Parreno; theatre directors Peter Sellars, Romeo Castellucci, Anatoly Vassiliev; designer Rei Kawakubo; musicians Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack and Brian Eno; actors Gérard Depardieu, Willem Dafoe, Lars Eidinger, and actresses Isabelle Adjani, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert, Iris Berben, Hannah Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa...
DAU - [тизер] - новый фильм о Леониде Фёдорове - 2015