DAU Director Defends Film Despite Ukrainian Criticism
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky has refused to denounce the lead actor of the controversial film 'DAU' despite backlash from Ukraine. He expressed a wish for Ukraine to win the war but maintained his artistic stance during the Venice Film Festival.
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Russian director refuses to denounce lead actor despite criticism from Ukraine
Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s DAU, about physicist Lev Landau, stars Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, who has refused to speak out against Putin’s war The director of a controversial new Russian film has said “everyone pays for his own choice” when asked about his lead’s refusal to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine. In film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s DAU, which premiered at the Venice film festival on Wednesday, Greek-Russian star conductor Teodor Currentzis plays the eponymously nicknamed protagonist...
By Philip Oltermann in Venice
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Dissident Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who is at the Venice Film Festival with competition title “DAU” countered claims by Ukrainian officials that the film has Russian state links and took a clear position on the ongoing war. “Look, my position about Russia-Ukrainian war has been very clear from the beginning of the war,” he said. […]
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Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's biopic of Russian physicist Lev Lendau has been 20 years in the making, with over a dozen related features and other projects created in what’s been dubbed the 'Stalinist Truman Show.'
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