Release Date

09 Sep, 2026

Runtime

03:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

DAU

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Actors

Teodor Currentzis

Radmila Shegoleva

Анатолий Васильев

Vladimir Azhippo

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Dmitry Cheglakov

Demyan Kudryavstev

Μαρία Ναυπλιώτου

Екатерина Андреева

Viktorija Skyc'ka

Konstantin Lešan

Ekaterina Pačkovskaja

Alexey Blinov

Alexey Trifonov

Pēteris Ķimelis

Dmitry Kaledin

Nikita Nekrasov

Aleksandr Migdal

David Jonathan Gross

Carlo Rovelli

James Fallon

Crew

Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Susanne Marian

Vladimir Sorokin

Ilya Permyakov

Ilya Permyakov

Rob Myers

Jürgen Jürges

Manuel Alberto Claro

Lol Crawley

Denis Shibanov

Olga Gurevich

Boris Shapovalov

Lyubov Mingazitinova