Jekaterina Oertel
1966 (58 лет)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. Nora Mother
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Lydia Shchegoleva, Radmila Shchegoleva
Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives together with her family within the confines of a secret and privileged Moscow institute. Nora is visited by her mother for the first time since her wedding. Her mother closely observes the atmosphere within the couple's home, trying to work out whether her daughter is happy. During the course of their intimate conversations the complexity of their contradictory relationship is revealed.
DAU. Nora Mother
DAU. Katya Tanya
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Alexey Trifonov, Ekaterina Uspina
Katya, a young librarian, believes in love, but her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of disappointing affairs, Katya finally finds tenderness and understanding in the arms of her colleague, a journalist called Tanya. But then the First Department interferes: the state security services see this relationship as unacceptable for a Soviet woman.
DAU. Katya Tanya
DAU. Three Days
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Maria Nafpliotou, Radmila Shchegoleva
It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven't seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through Maria he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, Dau's wife, returns home.
DAU. Three Days
DAU. Nikita Tanya
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Nikita Nekrasov, Tatyana Pyatina
Within the top secret Institute of Physics Problems, the scientist Nikita Nekrasov is visited by his wife and small children. While away from his family the physicist has managed to fall in love with other women. In open conversations with his spouse – in the bedroom, the dining room, and while out walking – he attempts to convince her of the legitimacy of polygamous relationships, and to test the limits of her unconditional love.
DAU. Nikita Tanya
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. Nora Son
Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Anna Volkova, Radmila Shchegoleva
Alienated from the rest of the scientific Institute in which they live, a lonely housewife and her teenage son break the ultimate taboo, with only their submissive maid to bear witness.
DAU. Nora Son
DAU. The Empire
Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Anatoly Vasiliev
Anatoly Vasiliev, Teodor Currentzis
«The Empire» is a film in the genre of a novel, in four books. «The Return of the Prodigal Son», «War and Peace», «The Big Bang», lasting 8.5 hours. These are the dialogues of the two protagonists — Krupitsa and Dau — and scenes from the life of the Institute of Physical Problems (from the year 38 to 52). The Big Terror, Power and Man, Revolution and War, Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism, the Atomic Bomb, Scientists and Physicists, etc. «State security warriors», wives, girlfriends, employees — that is the theme of the novel, which tells the story of the destiny and resistance of a genius in the era of dystopian Empire.
DAU. The Empire
