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The Return [2003] [2004]
from Ugc Films
starring Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalia Vdovina
directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• the return - a brilliant film
  Quite disturbing in places and emotionally bleak and harsh. A film about relationships, secrets, young dreams and expectations: dreams that get shattered on the return of the father after 12 years of absence. And as much as you come to fully understand the almost minimalist plot, you never know the whole secret: what's in the box? You don't really need to know. Acted brilliantly, use of colours and angles and soundtrack is superb; some say a weak storyline but I disagree.. there's nothing weak about this. I... more info

• Best Russian film I have seen in ages
  A very fine first film by Russian director Andrei Zvyagyntsev. A pair of boys (a teenager and his younger brother) live with their mother in a decrepit town in northwestern Russia. Suddenly, their absent father returns (a rude and authoritarian figure, who it is suggested, has been a military pilot) and brings them to a mysterious island for what is presumably a fishing trip. But, as it turns out, in the island a treasure is buried, perhaps from a burglary from which the father might be connected. The older... more info

• you must see this film
  "The Return" and Zviagintzev most recent "The Bannishmnet" prove that he is Tarkovski of the New generation.
  You must see this film!

• No reason to be disappointed...
  What if you hadn't seen your father in twelve years, and one day you came home, and your mom said that he was sleeping in the bedrooom?
  That's exactly what happens to the two young brothers, Andrey and Ivan, when the mysterious man, just arrived, who claims to be their father, decides to take them on a fishing trip for bonding time.
  As the movie progresses, it is evident to both the movie viewer and the brothers that something isn't quite right. Every once in a while, the father turns around and... more info

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