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A film still of physicist Alexander Vilenkin from the set of "Dau". He was flown to Kharkov for a week to play the role of a scientist in the movie.

This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished

Arts

Dau was filmed in a full-size replica of a Soviet scientific institute featuring real-life physicists, Communist party bosses and former KGB agents. But you might never get the chance to see the results of the huge production.Dau was filmed in a full-size replica of a Soviet scientific institute featuring real-life physicists, Communist party bosses and former KGB agents. But you might never get the chance to see the results of the huge production.

Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine may be the next flashpoint in the Russia-Ukraine standoff

Global Politics
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice

Are you Ukrainian or Russian? It’s complicated…

Lifestyle & Belief