Venice Film Festival screens Dau amid Ukrainian protests
The Venice Film Festival screened the film "Dau," which took 20 years to produce and depicts the life of Soviet physicist Lev Landau, a Nobel laureate. The film, in Russian, sparked objections from the Ukrainian government, which considered its screening inappropriate amid the ongoing war between Moscow and Kyiv. Its director, Ilya Khryzanovsky, who relinquished his Russian citizenship in 2024, stated that filming began at a time when it was hard to imagine a war between the two countries. The film reflects Landau's life under the Soviet Union, with a duration of 165 minutes. It is competing for the Golden Lion award alongside 21 other films.
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