Olga Shkabarnya
2021DAU. Degeneration
Ilya Permyakov, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Vladimir Azhippo, Dmitry Kaledin
A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. The KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of prominent scientists and their cruel and insane research. One day, a radical ultra right-wing group arrives in the laboratory under the guise of test subjects. They get a task - to eradicate the decaying elements of the Institute’s community, and if needs be, destroy the fragile world of secret Soviet science.
DAU. Degeneration
DAU. Natasha
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya
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 Bige 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
DAU. Brave People
Alexey Slyusarchuk, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Andrey Losev, Alexey Blinov
It is 1953, Stalin has just died. It is a troubled and uncertain period for the whole of the Soviet Union, particularly for the state security services. In the Institute, a secret research facility, the scientists continue their theoretical and experimental work. Every night they strain their ears to listen for footsteps in the dark corridors: who have they come for this time? Who has reported on who? Having survived the fear and humiliation of an interrogation, the Head of the Theoretical Department, Andrei Losev, refuses to cooperate with the security services, only to face a new ordeal back in his own home.
DAU. Brave People
ДАУ. Саша Валера
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Alexandr Bozhik, Valery Andreev
Sasha, a young janitor, notices a certain softness and kindness in an older janitor. In a small, secluded room, away from their colleagues, the two men waver between resisting and giving in to their feelings and desires, walking a tightrope between violent tendencies and a need for tenderness.
DAU. Sasha Valera
DAU. Regeneration
Ilya Permyakov, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Alexey Blinov, Dmitry Kaledin
A mathematician in a secret Soviet research Institute believes that ayahuasca is the key to unlocking all the potential of the quantum universe, but its nightmarish visions also foreshadow his tragic demise.
DAU. Regeneration
DAU. Conformists
Alexey Slyusarchuk, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Alexey Blinov, Irina Titova
Two scientists grow old and weary together in a secret Soviet Institute, their unconventional friendship the only consistency in a lifetime of personal and professional disappointments.
DAU. Conformists
Я слой
Anatoly Voronov
Ruslan Bulatov, Aleksandr Loye
Lyosha Pirogov arrives in Moscow and first of all is going to visit a childhood friend. On the way to the place of celebration, the taxi driver tells him a strange story about a multi-layered landfill on which, after reclamation, a residential complex for young families should be built. To buy at least some kind of gift, Lyosha goes to the local grocery store, but the only thing he finds on the counter is a pink cake.
I'm a Layer
