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DAU. NATASHA

By Illya KHRZHANOVSKIY, Jekaterina OERTEL

COPRODUCTION OFFICE - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2020

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020

Competition SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION

Ventana Sur 2020

European Screenings

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 145 mn
- Director(s)
- Illya KHRZHANOVSKIY, Jekaterina OERTEL
- Synopsis
- Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute’s employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha’s world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bigé and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB’s General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.
  
  DAU. Natasha is the first feature from Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s large-scale simulation of the totalitarian Soviet system. Created in collaboration with co-director Jekaterina Oertel, cinematographer Jürgen Jürges, and a cast of non-professionals. DAU. Natasha pushes the boundaries in this transgressive depiction of a life that would be completely normal if not for totalitarian use of power. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative