The Return ( Vozvrashchenie )

The Return (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vozvrashchenie
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Camerimage Awards
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Golden Globes
Sundance Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Andrei Zvyagintsev

Written By:
Vladimir Moiseyenko
Aleksandr Novototsky

Actors:
Vladimir Garin ..... Andrey
Ivan Dobronravov ..... Ivan
Konstantin Lavronenko ..... Father
Natalya Vdovina ..... Mother
Yelizaveta Aleksandrova ..... Waitress
Lazar Dubovik ..... Hooligan
Lyubov Kazakova ..... Devushka v zerkalakh
Galina Petrova ..... Grandmother
Aleksei Suknovalov ..... Zavodila
Andrei Sumin ..... Man at Port

Synopsis:

Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev makes his feature-film debut with the bleak psychological drama Vozvrashchenie (The Return). Younger brother Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) and older brother Andrei (Vladimir Garin) live in a small town with their mother (Natalya Vdovina). One summer, the brothers are surprised by the arrival of their long-lost absent father (Konstantin Lavronenko). Although the boys only know him from an old photograph, he still orders them to accompany him on a fishing trip. The stern father then puts his two sons through a series of endurance tests. Doting Andrei is quick to cooperate, while stubborn Ivan is more reluctant to trust him. Ivan wants to know where he's been and what he's up to. After they travel by boat to a deserted island, the father gets even more mysterious. The Return won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2003.

Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.

In the remote Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they only know through a single photograph - resurfaces.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 16 December, 2005.

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