Controversial Venice Film ‘Dau’ Explores Soviet Brutality and Lev Landau

Filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky premiered his three-hour biographical film Dau at the Venice Film Festival, revisiting decades of Soviet Union totalitarianism through the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lev Landau. According to the filmmaker, the project was begun two decades ago and relies on unconventional methods, including actors and extras living permanently on a massive, full-scale … Read more