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Film on Soviet physicist Lev Landau to get world premier in Paris

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Film on Soviet physicist Lev Landau to get world premier in Paris


21.01.2019


DAU feature by Ilya Khrzhanovsky dedicated to Nobel-prize winning Soviet physicist Lev Landau, to be premiered in France on January, 24. The film showcase to be accompanied by Soviet life-style installations. French press call the epic biopic the most intriguing project of this film season, L'Observateur Russe reported.

The film is based on the plot written by Vladimir Sorokin. Shooting process took 3 years with several following years of post-production.  

“The scale of this whole project is totally mindboggling,” said the physicist Alexander Vilenki who played Landau in the film. “They closed the main street of Kharkov for two days, they closed the airport and they changed the signs from Ukrainian to Russian. They were shooting a scene where hungry people ate some cabbage, so they brought 70 tons of cabbage and they sprayed it with cement to make it look rotten.”

The film premier project is attracting a lot of attention. USSR-style spots to be created in several places, including Théâtre du Châtelet and Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou. So-called “visa” (purchasable online) is needed to get inside and see installations combining architecture and quantum physics and Madame Tussaud sculptures. The audience to be asked to leave cell phones outside to make as much realistic as possible engaging in Soviet vibe.

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