''DAU. Natasha'' is a 2020 Russian-language internationally co-produced
drama film directed by
Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Ilya Andreyevich Khrzhanovsky (russian: Илья́ Андре́евич Хржановский; born 11 August 1975) is a Russian-born film director, screenwriter, film producer and member of the European Film Academy.
His father Andrei Khrzhano ...
and Jekaterina Oertel. It was selected to compete for the
Golden Bear in the main competition section at the
70th Berlin International Film Festival
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director C ...
. At Berlin, the film won the
Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
Cast
* Natalia Berezhnaya as Natasha
* Olga Shkabarnya as Olga
* Vladimir Azhippo as Azhippo
* Alexei Blinov as Prof. Blinov
Production
The film took 15 years to produce and utilized hundreds of actors. ''
The Guardian'' likened the film to a real world implementation of ''
Synecdoche, New York
''Synecdoche, New York'' (pronounced ) is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an incr ...
''.
See also
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DAU (project)
DAU is a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of cinema, art, and anthropology, which had its premiere in Paris in early 2019.
DAU Film
DAU was initially conceived as a full length feature film about the life of a genius in troubled t ...
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Dau (film)
''DAU'' is a 2019 Russian film of the DAU project organised by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. The film deals with the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet scientist Lev Landau. The premiere in Paris on 25 January 2019 was in the form of a dozen featur ...
References
External links
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Dau (project)
2020 films
2020 drama films
2020s Russian-language films
Russian drama films
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution
Films set in Kharkiv
Films shot in Kharkiv
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