{
  "id": 6282075,
  "title": "Inside ‘DAU,’ the 20-Year Soviet Simulation That Became Cinema’s Strangest Ghost Story",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/inside-dau-the-20-year-soviet-simulation-that-became-cinemas",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-08T13:05:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hollywood Reporter",
    "slug": "the-hollywood-reporter",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dau-venice-film-festival-ilya-khrzhanovsky-1236686499/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic is finally coming to Venice — amid a new geopolitical firestorm.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}