Ivan and Andrei find themselves alternately tested, rescued, scolded, mentored, scrutinized, and ignored by the man. With their mother's uneasy blessing, Ivan and Andrei set out on what they believe will be a simple fishing vacation with him.Īndrei is delighted to be reunited with their father and Ivan is apprehensive towards the man whom they know only from a faded photograph.Īt first, both brothers are pleased with the prospect of an exciting adventure, but they soon strain under the weight of their father's awkward and increasingly brutal efforts to make up for the missing decade. After running home after a fight with each other, the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a 12-year absence. Both their mother and grandmother live with them. In contemporary Russia, Ivan and his older brother Andrei have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was also selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (as well as the award for the best first film) and was nominated on Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions. It tells the story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. The Return ( Russian: Возвращение, romanized: Vozvrashcheniye) is a 2003 Russian coming-of-age drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and released internationally in 2004.
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