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
- Awards
- Silver Lion – Award for Best Director, 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026)
Premio Bisato d’Oro – Best Film, independent critics’ jury, to Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Jürgen Jürges (Venice 2026)
Cinema & Arts Award – Best Multidisciplinary Artist, Anatoly Vasiliev (Venice 2026) - Selection
- In Competition — 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026)
- Release
- Second half of 2026
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“Where to begin with Dau? Let’s start by calling it a modern masterpiece.”
Financial Times · Raphael Abraham — read the review ★★★★★ -
“A mad, daunting, haunting film.”
The Guardian · Peter Bradshaw — read the review ★★★★★ -
“Khrzhanovsky’s ‘mother film’ is clearly a different beast from his other Dau features.”
The Hollywood Reporter · Jordan Mintzer — read the article -
“The best film seen so far in the festival’s competition.”
El País · Elsa Fernández-Santos — read the review -
“The kind of lawless auteur craziness rarely seen in today’s narrative cinema.”
Screen Daily · Jonathan Romney — read the review -
“Dau is chiefly a masterpiece of brick-by-brick world-building.”
Cineuropa · David Katz — read the review -
“One of the most singularly fascinating accomplishments in the history of cinema.”
IONCINEMA · Nicholas Bell — read the review
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 Vladimir Sorokin, Susanne Marian, Ilya Permyakov
- Cinematographers
- Jürgen Jürges, Lol Crawley, Manuel Alberto Claro
- Editors
- Ilya Permyakov, Rob Myers
- Production Designers
- Denis Shibanov, Olga Gurevich, Boris Shapovalov
- Sound Recording & Editing
- Kirill Vasilenko, Guillaume Bouchateau, Maksym Demydenko, Rob Myers, Elena Gurvich
- Costume Designers
- Lyubov Mingazitinova, Irina Tsvetkova, Alexandra Timofeeva, Alexandra Smolina, Stefania Graurogkayte, Elena Bekritskaya, Olga Bekritskaya
- Creative Producers
- Vera Levchenko, Alexey Slusarchuk, Zoya Popova
- Hair & Make-Up
- Jekaterina Oertel
- Main Cast
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- Teodor Currentzis
- Radmila Shchogolieva
- Anatoly Vasiliev
- Vladimir Azhippo
- Maria Nafpliotou
- Dmitri Tcherniakov
- Dmitry Cheglakov
- Demian Kudryavtsev
- Konstantin Leshan
- Vladimir Yermolenko
- Pavel Gordienko
- Aleksey Trifonov
- Ekaterina Andreeva
- Victoriia Skytska
- Ekaterina Pachkovskaya
- Peter Sellars
- David Gross
- Carlo Rovelli
- Alexander Migdal
- James H. Fallon
- Alexei Blinov
- Peteris Kimelis
- Nikita Nekrasov
- Dmitry Kaledin
- Daniil Ishmatov
- Yuriy Alekseev
- Nikolay Voronov
- Lidiya Starostina
- Valery Tscheplanowa
- Vasily Antipov
- Evgeny Lipsky
- Alexey Nikonov
- Tamara Popova
- Mikail Fikhtengolts
- Performances
- Romeo Castellucci, Marina Abramović and Carsten Höller as themselves
- Production Companies
- Producers
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Philippe Bober, Leonid Lebedev
- Co-producers
- Susanne Marian, Solal Coutard, Svetlana Dragayeva, Erik Hemmendorff
- Executive Producers
- Natalia Osipova, Jamal Zeinal-Zade, Alexandra Timofeeva, Kristina Voloshina, Galya Bott, Philipp Pastukhov, Oleksiy Makukhin, Dasha Sherman, Demian Kudryavtsev, Herman Wolfson, Ilya Demichev, Clemens Köstlin
- With the support of
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- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
- Swedish Film Institute
- Hubert Bals Film Fund
- 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