The Return

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