DAU. Natasha

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel

Special Sessions Germany, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia 134 min Spainish premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Primera part cinematogràfica del megaprojecte multimèdia DAU, dels russos Ilià Khrzhanovski i Sergei Adonyev, una obra crua i ambiciosa que ha comportat deu anys de rodatge, 700 hores de material i centenars d’actors vivint en un set de 12.000 metres quadrats. L’acció transcorre en un institut secret d’investigacions científiques de l’URSS, a través de la mirada d’una cambrera del restaurant del centre, i reflexiona sobre la vigilància i el totalitarisme a l’antiga superpotència. Alcohol, sexe, violència i terror en una de les propostes més radicals dels últims anys. Os de Plata al Festival de Berlín.

Themes

European CinemaDramaHistoryPoliticsSex

Filmmaker

Iekaterina Oertel

Jekaterina Oertel graduated from the Moscow Film and Theatre School. She began her professional career as a makeup artist until she became head of the department and worked for more than fifty national and international productions of filmmakers such as Tom Tykwer or Roland Emmerich. Since 2008 she has been involved in DAU project, for which she has been co-director and makeup and hairdressing artist.

Filmography: DAU. Natasha (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Sasha Valera (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Katya Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nikita Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Three Days (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Mother (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Son (codirigit, 2020)

Iekaterina Oertel

Ilià Khrzhanovski

Ilya Khrzhanovskiy graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and in 2005 he released his first feature film, 4, winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival and awarded at festivals such as Transilvania or BAFICI, among many others. In 2006 he started DAU, an ambitious film project that combines art, anthropology and history, which was premiered in 2019 in Paris, between the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Pompidou Center.

Filmography: DAU. Regeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Natasha (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Conformists (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Degeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Sasha Valera (codirigit, 2020), DAU. New Man (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Katya Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nikita Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. String Theory (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Brave People (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Three Days (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Mother (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Son (codirigit, 2020), Dau (2019), 4 (2004)

Ilià Khrzhanovski

Film information

Director: Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel
Script: Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel
Contact: Avalon
With: Natalia Berezhnaia, Olga Shkabarnoa, Vladimir Azhippo
Country: Germany, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia
Year: 2020
Format: DCP
Length: 134 min
Language: Russian, Ukrainian, English
Subtitles: Spanish
Subtitles in Filmin: Spanish
Edition: 2021

Awards

BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
Silver Berlin Bear

Poster

DAU. Natasha