The company
IP Filmworks is a film production company based in Paris, founded by Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Philippe Bober.
The company was established for the production of DAU, directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky and produced by Philippe Bober.
The film
DAU
Inspired by the lives of the Soviet physicists who created the atomic bomb, DAU tells the story of a brilliant Greek-born physicist living in the USSR from 1928 to 1968. Spanning four decades, it is both an intimate portrait of one man and a fresco of a society shaped by power, surveillance and ideology.
DAU is the culmination of more than two decades of artistic and cinematic work. Release is scheduled for the second half of 2026.
- Director
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Producer
- Philippe Bober
- Production
- IP Filmworks SAS, Paris
- Selection
- In Competition — 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026)
- Release
- Second half of 2026
Founders
Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Director
Director and producer, born 1975; graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1998. His debut feature 4 premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and received the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. In 2006 he began DAU, which grew into a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of cinema, visual art and anthropology; DAU. Natasha and DAU. Degeneration were selected for the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, where DAU. Natasha received the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
Philippe Bober
Producer
Producer and distributor. In 1987 he founded Coproduction Office, which comprises production divisions in Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen and London and an international sales company, specialising in auteur cinema. He has produced films by Roy Andersson, Ulrich Seidl, Jessica Hausner, Carlos Reygadas and Ruben Östlund, including The Square and Triangle of Sadness, both awarded the Palme d’Or.
Credits
- Director
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Screenwriter
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Ilya Khrzhanovsky
With the participation of Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin, Ilia Permiakov
- Cinematography
- Jürgen Jürges, Manuel Alberto Claro, Lol Crawley
- Editing
- Ilia Permiakov, Rob Myers
- Production Design
- Denis Shibanov, Olga Gurevich, Boris Shapovalov
- Sound Recording and Editing
- Kirill Vasilenko, Elena Gurvich, Guillaume Bouchateau, Rob Myers, Maksym Demydenko
- Costume Design
- Lyubov Mingazitinova, Irina Tsvetkova, Alexandra Timofeeva, Alexandra Smolina-Rozanova, Stefania Graurogkayte, Elena Bekritskaya, Olga Bekritskaya
- Make-up
- Jekatarina Oertel
- VFX
- Dasha Sherman
- Main Cast
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- Teodor Currentzis
- Radmila Shchogolieva
- Anatoly Vasiliev
- Vladimir Azhippo
- Dmitri Tcherniakov
- Dmitry Cheglakov
- Demyan Kudryavtsev
- Maria Nafpliotou
- Ekaterina Andreeva
- Victoriia Skytska
- Konstantin Leshan
- Ekaterina Pachkovskaya
- Alexey Blinov
- Aleksey Trifonov
- Peteris Kimelis
- Nikita Nekrasov
- Alexander Migdal
- David Gross
- Carlo Rovelli
- James Fallon
- Peter Sellars
- Daniil Ishmatov
- Yuriy Alekseev
- Pavel Gordienko
- Vladimir Yermolenko
- Nikolay Voronov
- Performances
- Carsten Höller, Marina Abramović, Romeo Castellucci
- Production Companies
- Producers
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Philippe Bober, Leonid Lebedev
- Coproducers
- Susanne Marian, Solal Coutard, Svetlana Dragayeva, Erik Hemmendorff
- With the Support of
- World Sales
- TBC
- Countries
- Germany, France, Sweden
- Languages
- Russian, English, Greek
- Year
- 2026
- Format
- 35mm
- Colour
- Colour
- Running Time
- 3:15
Contact
For all inquiries, please get in touch.
IP Filmworks SAS24 rue Lamartine
75009 Paris, France