Plot synopsis

The story of a secret Soviet research institute that aims to produce the perfect human being, but in the end is crushed by an unholy alliance of the secret police and nationalist troops who will stop at nothing to achieve their ideals.
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commentaries

DAU. Degeneration review – shocking, six-hour satire of Soviet science, Peter BRADSHAW, theguardian.com, 2020

DAU. "Sometimes this space can hurt you." [Tous les films de Dau, 2018, de Ilia KHRJANOVSKI], Eugénie ZVONKINE, Oleg ARONSON, Amanda BARBOUR, Olga BRYUKHOVETSKA, Philip CAVENDISH, Natascha DRUBEK, Heleen GERRITSEN, Nick HOLDSWORTH, Kior JANEV, Karol JÓŹWIAK, Catriona KELLY, Ilja KUKUJ, John Leman RILEY, Irina SCHULZKI, Taras SPIVAK, Denise J. YOUNGBLOOD, apparatusjournal.net, 2020

Дау. Путеводитель по всем фильмам [Tous les films de Dau, 2018, de Ilia KHRJANOVSKI], Anton DOLIN, Евгений ГУСЯТИНСКИЙ, Вадим РУТКОВСКИЙ, Никита КАРЦЕВ, Егор БЕЛИКОВ, Наталия ПЫЛАЕВА, Лариса МАЛЮКОВА, Дмитрий ВОЛЧЕК, kinoart.ru, 2020

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023

- Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot", Yerevan (Armenia), 2022

- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2021

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2020

- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2020

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