DAU

DAU (2026)

DramaThriller

Inspired by the physicists who built the Soviet atomic bomb, the film DAU follows a brilliant Greek-born physicist from 1928 through four tumultuous decades in the USSR. Driven to uncover the laws of the universe, the idealistic Dau is drawn into state service to help create one of history’s deadliest weapons. Inside a secret research institute, life is governed by scientific ambition, power, surveillance and privilege. As his autonomy erodes, Dau seeks freedom beyond his marriage through a succession of affairs, gradually losing both himself and his capacity to love. At once an intimate portrait of a man in pursuit of happiness and freedom and a vast fresco of a society founded on violence and ideology, DAU traces the small compromises that shape a life and alter the course of history.

Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Casts

	Teodor Currentzis as Dau
	Radmila Shegoleva as Nora
	Anatoly Vasiliev as Anatoly Krupitsa
	Vladimir Azhippo as Azhippo
	Dmitri Tcherniakov as
	Dmitry Cheglakov as
	Demyan Kudryavstev as
	Maria Nafpliotou as
	Ekaterina Andreeva as
	Viktorija Skyc'ka as
	Konstantin Lešan as
	Ekaterina Pačkovskaja as
	Alexey Blinov as
	Alexey Trifonov as
	Pēteris Ķimelis as
	Dmitry Kaledin as
	Nikita Nekrasov as
	Aleksandr Migdal as
	David Jonathan Gross as
	Carlo Rovelli as
	James Fallon as
	Peter Sellars as
	Daniil Išmatov as
	Yuriy Alekseev as
	Pavel Gordienko as
	Vladimir Ermolenko as
	Nikolay Voronov as
	Anna Volkova as
	Andrey Losev as
	Fyodor Sofronov as

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