The Return - Die Rückkehr

Lake shore. Summer. A splash. Two boys receive their long-vanished father. A tense road trip begins, pressing them toward an island. Fishing, camping, and cryptic lessons mix with simmering resentment. Bleakly beautiful debut won at Venice, part of the post-Soviet Russian cinema rediscovery.

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Andrey Zvyagintsev directed The Return - Die Rückkehr in 2003. See Andrey Zvyagintsev's full filmography, where to start with Andrey Zvyagintsev, or where to go after you've seen everything by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

The Return - Die Rückkehr was released in 2003 (RU original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.