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Vladimir Garin | ... | Andrey | |
Ivan Dobronravov | ... | Ivan | |
Konstantin Lavronenko | ... | Otets | |
Nataliya Vdovina | ... | Mat | |
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Galina Popova | ... | Babushka |
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Aleksey Suknovalov | ... | Zavodila |
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Lazar Dubovik | ... | Khuligan |
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Elizaveta Aleksandrova | ... | Ofitsiantka |
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Lyubov Kazakova | ... | Devushka v zerkalakh |
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Andrey Sumin | ... | Chelovek v portu |
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Aleksey Proshchikin | ||
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Viktor Alenin | ||
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Stas Orlov | ||
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Arseniy Belousov | ||
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Sofya Bagdasarova |
The events of the film unfold over six days and tell about the mysterious journey of a strange man and his two teenage sons who had never seen him before. Vanya and Andrey, for how long they remember, lived with their mother, who once told them that their father was a pilot. But one ordinary Monday, dad appears in their house and takes the brothers on a hike to a small island in the middle of a forest lake. Written by Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
I've seen many emotional films in my life, but I've never seen a film with as much emotional intensity as Vozvrashcheniye. Even though I don't know what it is like to have a distance or missing parent, I feel I've suffered the same feelings that other children in this situation must have.
The emotional content of the film continues if you watch the documentary on the making of the film included in the DVDs extras. This is no ordinary film; the feelings of the director, the cinematographer, the producer, and the personal experiences of each of the actors; words cannot describe the heart every single person put into this film. The insufficiency of words can also be described by the film itself -there isn't a heavy amount of dialogue, and there doesn't need to be (even though for the majority of the film you're screaming at the characters to say something!). To quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsky (a Russian author): "there is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
This little review doesn't do justice to the film for the same reason. It is for this reason, this insufficiency that words have, why films (like this one) need to be created.