DAU. DEGENERATION
by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ilya Permyakov
synopsis
A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and people, aiming at creating an “ideal human being”. A KGB general and his aides prefer to turn a blind eye to the erotic adventures of the director and scandalous debaucheries of distinguished scientists and their mad and cruel research methods. Until once, under the guise of test subjects, a radical youth group arrives to the Institute. They are given a severe task: to eradicate the dissoluted behaviour of intelligentsia and - if needs be - to destroy and to erase the fragile world of the Institute.
international title: | DAU. Degeneration |
original title: | DAU. Degeneratsia |
country: | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia |
sales agent: | Coproduction Office |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | docu-fiction |
directed by: | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ilya Permyakov |
film run: | 355' |
screenplay: | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ilya Permyakov |
cast: | Dmitry Kaledin, Vladimir Azhippo, Olga Shkabarnya, Alexei Blinov, Nikita Nekrasov, Adin Steinsaltz, Zoya Popova, Alexey Trifonov, Kristina Voloschina, Viktoria Skitskaya |
cinematography by: | Jürgen Jürges |
film editing: | Ling Lee, Arttu Salmi, Marianne Kuopanportti Fennel |
art director: | Denis Shibanov |
costumes designer: | Lyubov Mingasitinova, Olga Bekritskaya, Elena Bekritskaya, Irina Tsvetkova |
producer: | Sergey Adonyev |
co-producer: | Svetlana Dragayeva, Kristina Voloschina, Alexandra Timofeeva, Susanne Marian |
production: | Phenomen Berlin Filmproduktion, Phenomen UK, Phenomen Ukraine (UA), Phenomen Films (RU) |