The director Ilya Krzhanovsky has been shooting the film Dau since 2006 on
a set near Kharkhov and has inspired much attention on account of his
fanatical attempts at re-creating ‘50s and ‘60s Moscow, home to Dau’s
subject, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist who significantly advanced
quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and
superconductivity. In quite a cinematic twist, the subject spent two months in
a coma after a car-crash and the Nobel he had won had to be awarded to
him in a bedside ceremony. Who?
a set near Kharkhov and has inspired much attention on account of his
fanatical attempts at re-creating ‘50s and ‘60s Moscow, home to Dau’s
subject, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist who significantly advanced
quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and
superconductivity. In quite a cinematic twist, the subject spent two months in
a coma after a car-crash and the Nobel he had won had to be awarded to
him in a bedside ceremony. Who?