The Return (2003) (English subtitles).

[dfememso]

great movie...."the return" is somehow reflect the coming of Jesus Christ...we have to be prepared for everything, same what dad in this movie wanting to know his two son...whewwww!

[OmarHaleemOne]

Loved the soundtrack and production, excellent quality..

[TheVillarus]

????????????????

[amayaamaya11]

a great movie :D we actually watched it in school during art history. professor showed it to us.

[kimzainoyam]

...LIKE....

[ForeignLanguageOnly]

I respect all interpretations, however, I do not see any connection between the father of the kids in the movie and God.

[NaileSS]

мелкий тупой идиот

[leannh5]

that box was his airplane black box. he was a pilot, he probably had a plane crash and ended up living on that island for 12 yrs. remember he told his sons he couldn't eat fish because he had had to eat fish for years. my guess is he brought his sons to the island to eventually tell them his story.

[MrBobWhiskey]

@leannh5 You're wrong. "The Return" is not about sons and dad relationship. It's a film about god. About his return to us.

[kostyaklem]

Фильм меня очень удивил, когда первый раз увидел..это шедевр! И вот прошло уже несколько лет, эмоции те же. Спасибо!

[MrItsamemichael]

the guy that played Andrei actually died after this movie was released, he drowned...

[ChadConnor87]

I want to meet the director just to ask what's in the box... i really want to find out.. fuck!!!

[johntor]

38:08 next

[sehrschon12]

хорошие действия!!!

[Rockstarsss]

Haro6ij film,russkij oskar bi dal,maladci rezisjori i postanovschiki

[MateiMocanu]

1:31:31 - 1:34:00 music gives me goosebumps

[hollyannblss]

wtf was in the box!!!!!!!!

[tubebino8]

Nope, it sucks shit!

[1ballysillan]

great film, everything was epic, music, location, acting, young ivan was immense.

What was in the box?

[AndrewChan84]

Modern Oedipus Complex.

[AndrewChan84]

Good movie. Modern male psychology.

[MrWillywax]

When I saw this movie, it seemed like a punch in my face. A true masterpiece.

[visiblechunk]

only movie that I cried in, and I didnt feel bad about it

[TheMoncheri86]

the boy who plays Andrei, actor Vladimir Garin, died accidentally in 2003, shortly after the film release. His death was announced at Film Fair of Venice. RIP Vladimir!

[prasadmt10]

contd-----Similar right parenting is lacking or is discouraged in the western and US societies, to their doom. The father and his wife are a great couple.They did not choose deserving, beautiful sex after 12 year seperation, but chooses their sons' happiness more. Any US or Westrn Director would have brought in 'porn scenes' in such situations. But not this great Director - Andrey Zvyagintsev.Generally movies of today are sick.'The Return' also shows what a great movie is and shows reality.

[prasadmt10]

---not a depressed,diappointed, pessimistic and violent, so called avenger to society for the wrongs done to him by the world.A western or US director would have chosen such a plot. The funny relegion places have no movies or art or literature worth mentioning.But practically imparts or tries to impart to his sons values of manhood. This is parenting correct and right.May be the father's father taught him similarly. -----

[prasadmt10]

contd.----- equally valid-"may be their father is a gangster and will slit their throats any moment".Society has degraded, as perhaps, never before in history; to turning people to gangsterism-kill,smash,cut throat,smash planes to towers-but make profit or subjugate, is the prevailing so called western and funny relegion's idealogy. So the younger son's assumption also is valid too.Dear reader the father might have been held captive by the enemy camp for 12 years.But the father retuns and is---

[AndrewChan84]

@prasadmt10 you may think that all western people promote degrading culture. But let me ask you this. If love results in violence, like this man who obviously loves he kids (willing to risk life to save son), shows plenty of violence to his kids in order to teach them, it is actually good? He is a good father, but because of violence, his death also happened. This is not just a Russian problem, it is a male problem.Playing manhood with children can be dangerous. Nevertheless, this is good movie.

[prasadmt10]

Except if you are not an youngster, I think, you should give a thought to what I write (majority of the youngsters in their anger fails to appreciate truth). Criticise, I did; the western, U S and funny religion's cultural ideologies.But "that all western people promote degrading culture", as you write is not and shall never be my conviction.We do know, that our parents chastcised us as chidren. Looking back don't we see how thankful, we should be to our parents for teching us all the goodness.

[prasadmt10]

contd. The surgeon's use of the knife causes pain, but eliminates future terrible pain and in many cases untimely death. We are talking about cultured parents on all the earth. Some times parenting involves strictness to the extent of caning or other mesures, depending upon the society in which we live; ofcourse tactfully. Violence is criminal and the father of the movie is never so. Catchin up the boy who stole the purse from his sons is brought back and put before the sons.

[prasadmt10]

To be punished by his sons, mind you, if the sons want so only. (What shall we infer from this? That the sorroundings in which the family lives is not a city which is well policed etc, but a village with similar justice systems also in operation. Do not conclude that there are no courts or police etc, in Russian villages. So getting the children a taste of the same is the very right thing to do, if you are not a sugar candy Daddy). The father asks the sons to hit back the thief for hitting them.

[AndrewChan84]

@prasadmt10 What is a funny religion then? I have read everything you said. I never assumed that there are no courts or police in small towns.

I also think that the father's death is unnecessary if they had talked properly. This, in my opinion is not a cultured way of raising children. Of course, you are free to disagree with me.

Nevertheless, I think this is a good movie because it reveals the male psyche.

[arriviste2020]

@AndrewChan84

Yes, the father's death was unnecessary, but he chose to take the risk, which could be stated as being stupid, or a major error of judgement. Define 'talking properly'. What exactly is a "cultured way of raising children?" Russians are (in) famous for the 'dark' movies which they love to produce, and as movies are primarily meant to be entertaining, seconded by expressing some type of message, what's the big deal? Virtually any interpretation could be attributed to this movie.

[AndrewChan84]

@arriviste2020 don't take out of context. I was responding to someone saying that this is right parenting

[arriviste2020]

@AndrewChan84

Nothing was taken out of context, merely verbal expression and questions as to the content of the movie, and your somewhat convoluted ideas. Again, the movie is open to a myriad of interpretations. Next thing it will be, Joseph Stalin was not a 'bad guy', just suffered from poor publicity.

[AndrewChan84]

@arriviste2020 anything

[arriviste2020]

@AndrewChan84

Quite so, and the reference to convoluted still stands.

[AndrewChan84]

@arriviste2020 anything man, you it's open to interpretation so I'm going to stick with mine.

[arriviste2020]

@AndrewChan84

So very glad that your sticking with your interpretation. The fact that your reasoning is as flawed as that practiced by Barack Obama and Co. Gives those with a great deal of commonsense hope for the future. As for the film depicting "modern male psychology", the kindest thing which one could say. is that somewhere along the way, you lost the plot. Those of us whom have lived with the Russians, accept that history never repeats itself, man always does.

[AndrewChan84]

@arriviste2020 If I don't believe Stalin is a good man means I'm like Barrack Obama. If I say this movie reflects modern male psychology it means my ideas are convoluted. Anything man, it is open to interpretation and you too can interpret the way you want it.

[arriviste2020]

@AndrewChan84

Hmmmm, "Chan' would appear to indicate a name of Asian origin. That may explain the long convolution. Other than that, it's merely another case of the blind leading the blind.

The floor is yours,make of it as you will.Current interest has evaporated.

[AndrewChan84]

@arriviste2020 Yes, just as I am allegedly led by Barrack Obama.

[prasadmt10]

contd. The boys choose not to do so. What does the father do? Does he smash the boy thief before his sons to gain their, so called, male respect? Which perhaps we can name as 'male psychology'? Instead the father asks the boy thief, why he stole and gives currency notes to the thief for food. We see the thief running away. This is another lesson to the sons, in "love". We all come out of our mothers' womb many a times causing much pain and blood loss to our mothers.And we are to give back-

[prasadmt10]

@AndrewChan84 Sorry Indeed I Am. "any" is ofcourse the wrong word!

Thanks

[AndrewChan84]

@prasadmt10 In this movie, the mother talks to the younger son, very differently from the father also. The mother does not "provoke" the son and she says, "don't worry, I won't tell anyone you didn't jump". That is the difference between male and female psyche. I wasn't talking about Russian culture.

[prasadmt10]

@AndrewChan84

Your observation of the difference between male and female psyche by pointing it out in the movie is correct and very true.

Your comments in general are a great tribute to Good Movie/Cinema enthusiasts. Your such comments encourage the reader to analyse movies with care and look out for good; not alone in the movies, but in the society and world in general too.

[AndrewChan84]

@prasadmt10 Thank you for your efforts. I know that the Russian culture and language is rich, and I believe that language shapes the way the mind thinks. That's why we have different way of thinking between cultures.

And it makes me sad when because of Ideology and war, people have negative sentiments.

But I believe that Russian language and culture is a different thing from Russian national ideology (communist in the past). Modern Russia is very different.

Again, thank you!

[prasadmt10]

conrtd.----later, utmost care and affection and foremost of all 'Love' to our mothers and to womanhood in general. Both male and female persons ought to do this. Please tell me catching the boy thief incidences in the movie is violent or generates benevolant feelings to the viewers. If I slightly twist your words, for fun, hope you won't be offended. The only male problem involved in the movie is the absence of the father's, ie, the male parent's disciplining of the sons for 12 years.

[AndrewChan84]

@prasadmt10 In my culture, we try to treat man and woman as equally as possible. The pain (and blood loss) that the mother goes trough is only biological, but love comes from the heart.

I never said that the father is being unkind to the boy thief. In fact, what he did was very kind. I was not referring to that as male psyche.

I appreciate your effort of translating your comments into English.

[prasadmt10]

The father is perhaps one among 'the greatest', 'most loving' of all fathers. A 12 year gap and the attractive woman-his wife-he leaves, the very next day; and takes the children for fishing and camping. Why? To fulfill the required instruction of his wife."spend time with the children".And a whole lot of correct and loving teachings he imparts to his children by practical lessons.If this is not love, what is it then? And the resposes of the sons are great too.The younger one's assumption are--

[amritsudha1]

what a movie. Heartfelt thanks to whoever who uploaded it.

[AgimA74]

Sowiet and Varsaw Pakt movies were almost unbearable but this post-sowiet russian movies are great! :)

[Dekkkker]

Кстати актёр которого играл андрея утонул в Ленинградской области за 2 месяца до премьеры этого фильма

[BrankoBoskovic27]

2 words: GREAT MOVIE!!! 

[Dekkkker]

@BrankoBoskovic27 By the way which actor played Andrey has sunk in Leningrad region 2 months prior to a premiere of this film

[feintgloe]

what was in the box that the father dug up??!!

[goatbut29]

Whoever these kids are-they do a great job! Amazing job of acting and brilliant of the director to coax such work from them. Thank you for hosting!

[ThaMahstah]

@goatbut29 Well, not "they." One (Andrei, the older one) tragically drowned shortly after making this movie. He was apparently trying to impress some drunk girls at the time.

[goatbut29]

@ThaMahstah Ouch. Im sorry to hear that. Thanks for the info.

[hordenbadboy]

Lol i thought it was an advert till I noticed how long it was

[moni4882]

i like ivan attitude hes rebellious....

[MatuArt]

depression~ depression ~ depression~ and he made it worse~ the kid was brave, defiant and in a rage over being controlled by someone he didn't even know~

[DoBrigh]

i think its funny that youtube bans accounts for violating copyright, but they dont pull the videos. lol. fail.

[krantikami]

I had seen this film in a festival. Saw it once more with family. Thanks a lot for the upload.

Yes, the box is the real mystery !!!

And what happened to all the CPSU documents ? No one knows !!

In the communist party regime, USSR was a real information-island !

Just recall the french-cut of the father(?). It was indeed a military regime.

The communist party and the proletariat-peasantry had differently oriented, thought slightly overlapping goals, which perhaps none succeeded to achieve.

[hannadzl]

Stupid boy. Kill his own father

[IsadoraCadaver]

@hannadzl

thanks for the spoiler

[gabrielevans999]

@hannadzl SPOILER douche

[poloniszka1]

the box... what a great point! the box was! But it was not important... Great thing!

[MrSimpleman789]

damn!! i wish i knew what was in the box..

[Rizwanbinriaz]

Никто не может победить Россию в кино.

Я не могу найти нужных слов, чтобы выразить, как я люблю этот фильм. Это собирается преследовать в течение длительного времени.

Спасибо вам большое.

[mashhh]

Wow this movie blew me away! So many questions left unanswered!

Thanks so much for the upload :)

[freepalestine7]

but y did he put the box there ???

[freepalestine7]

@MrFunkyPhantom sames but all the way through he waz acting strange

[43irek]

amazing movie and music !

[FainaxAnime]

I am looking for a Russian movie. Its about a young woman named Lida, she has to run from the city because her husband has been arrested by the KGB. While she tries to escape by train, she is seriously ill so they throw her of the train. An old woman named Malanya finds her and takes her to her village/kolhoz, where there is one gypsy man and only females. At first nobody likes her, later she falls in love with the gypsy man. Her husband ends up being alive, but she choses the gypsy.

[MrLijujoseph]

wonderful!!!!

[bajaninthesun]

Love this movie, thanks for uploading

[VanLars]

Very nice movie thanks for sharing..

[duncansantan]

the real truth is he was a thief a smuggler type. got caught and was behind bars for 12 years.he hid that treasure for the future of his family.

nice movie!!!!!!!

i enjoyed it!!!!!!!!

[Mutleytech]

This is about a young boy's memoirs. In the beginning of the film a boy dives into the water and beneath him is a sunken boat. Perhaps it was boat his father was in when it sank and perhaps this is why the boy is afraid to jump.

[78910703]

Это фильм о проблеме отцов и детей. Hеужели не понятно? все же так просто

This movie is about eternal problem of fathers and sons.

Is it really so hard to understand? it's very simple

[tmjw80]

Great Soundtrack (one of the better that I have heard in a while) and a great movie, thank you for posting!

[oldjaguar]

i dont know about you but their rooms look really bare and simple

[cheval572]

what the hell was in the metal box ???

[jecca1231]

@cheval572 pictures

[iNick16]

Dies ist ein wirklich guter Film. Aber ich bin traurig, dass Andrei ist tot.

[godunovc]

What happened to intellectuals - all are masturbating away? No one have seen "Последний дюйм"? No one has ever heard of italian neo-realism? Sad that.

Certainly a good non-square movie, thumbs up.

[birubirVideo]

@godunovc Потому что сейчас во главе угла стоят деньги. Поэтому и кино, в основном, говняное или ни о чём. Фильмов хороших мало, не говоря уж о мультфильмах. Чтобы сделать нечто подобное "Последнему дюйму" нужны не только деньги, но и мозги, да и душа тоже не помешала бы...

В общем, за что боролись - на то и напоролись...

[neolegionar]

RIP Andrei !!!

[billy1212ist]

It's just plain simple life.A man is gone for what ever reason,then returns.To rebuild,and start anew? Looks like he is,until he pushes,shoves,yells,hits,bulli­es the boys.This is not a nice man.Maybe she ran from him?The bully.He is quiet and sly,"hit the boys back",a violent streak too.He uses them as cover to get his "box",saying nothing.Looks at times like he wants to care,but just does not know how,unless forced to.It never would have worked anyway.He leaves never to return,again.end.

[QasimNawaz1]

ghj

[MyBlessedgirl]

@QasimNawaz1

At the end I was looking for him to be unconscious but alive so the boys would have their dad with them, I think that 's what they would have preferred. I also wondered what was in the metal box? Why took the boys to such a deserted place? A sad ending.

[GeneralAnimator]

Just watched it! It was a great movie!

Good acting, and alot of questions left to the viewer!

[bajaninthesun]

Thanks for uploading

[LeadHammer]

The father did not take his sons on vacation, he took them with him to wherever he himself needed to go as companions, just because their mom asked him to do it, and he saw it fitting.

The older son did not whine and bitch about being abandoned. He was glad to see his father and to learn from him. The key moment is how the older son accepted the role of the leader towards the end of the movie. He gave orders to his brother using the same words their dad had used. He grew up, instantly.

[TheRealAestuo]

@LeadHammer "Use your hands." one of my favorite lines of the movie.

[10WiseVirgins]

This is a really great movie .

Russian genius cinema is back, hu?

Congratulating!

Thumbs up!

Great production, great actors, great camera work, deep psychology of a modern men!

Genius work!

SPASIBO!

[thuinin]

cannot understand the death of the father. What is meaning of the death? What was inside the box the father put in the boat. Really many questions for this movie. At last I do not understand what message the director wanted to send to audiance ???????

[akiakica]

@thuinin i want to know too! please help!

[Lilililya]

@thuinin Perhaps, it's hard for you to understand the idea of the movie or its parts, as you should be aware of the Russian real life outside big cities. This life is very hard and poor,often children live in incomplete families with only mothers. Father came to help future "momma's boys" become the real MEN. This film is a sort of parable about the Father trying his Sons strength. The saddest thing about the film is that the actor who played Andrey drowned 2 months before the premiere.

[007ruiner]

nice movie

[georgije91]

I remember when we watched this movie at veronauka (orthodox christian elective course) at my highschool.There was so many different opinions and very good discussions.In one word great movie.

[hikousa52]

Tarkovsky'e göndermeleri olan hoş ve özel bir film.

[absD73]

otlichnie filmi i sposibo chto vi mogli ih postavit na youtube:)

[ScopezxQuick]

is the father really their father?

[strongvseddy2006]

Great! I love it!

[slonamu]

Excellent film. Too bad the producer did not come with more money so they can shoot it on film.

[charliebrown0591]

the film is very sad, it is tragic. their father wasn't given a chance to prove himself that he love them, especially to Vanya.

[BleedItToTheEnd]

Such a shame for this actor who performs Andrey to die, the way he did, and so young and talented.

[MrKeranglaut]

i like it... very good dramatic movie...

[1igar]

@MrKeranglaut  kogggfvc

[turkmenboss]

huynya kakoe to. ne smotrite pustaya trata vremeni

[PyccoTypucmo]

@turkmenboss На вкус и цвет - все фломастеры разные... ;-)

[Dmitrishak]

@turkmenboss ты долбоёб!!!!!!!!!!

[aspalela6]

what the fuck......dmnit......

[metroid12376]

DAMM WHAT WAS IN THE BOX ?????? THERE IS A SECOND PART ....LOL

[slonamu]

@metroid12376

What is in the box is everything the father has worked for to pass it to his children. But, as always the only think can pass to the next generation are memories.

[tajnanda]

man I just got done watching the movie. I was thinking about it all the time ....

[rkriitr]

and the last thing is, the way little fella acted after death of his father, was abnormal, should I say he was criminal minded

[one5643]

@rkriitr Ah come on, man. You spoiled the story and your comment is top if the list.

[rkriitr]

Certainly, the director put his best effort to justify little fella and some of commentators have taken it. But for me, it is tough to say who was worse jerk.. The boy had serious attitude problem, innocent not at all. Though at start, he seemed to be chicken, but then he seemed to be intelligent, which makes exactly opposite point of his thinking, then from middle onwards, he starts showing his true color. By comparison, His older brother looked more sane and worldly.

[rkriitr]

and the little boy said, why always me?

[ThePeaceinworld]

IVAN AND ANDREI'S MOTHER WAS REALLY LOOKS BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE SMOOKES. XOXO

[mamamiya3210]

What is inside the chest that the father dug? Who did the father received those mysterious calls from? Argh!!! This is what i hate about foreign movies..... Thay always leave some of the questions unanswered......

[Lilililya]

@mamamiya3210 The director doesn't give the answers to all the questions as they are not essential to the realization of the main idea of the film. But to my mind, the father had been in jail before returning home and in that trunk (perhaps) he had smth worthy.He could have dug it before he went to jail. If it was so, then the father made this trip and took his children just to cover his true intentions to find that trunk. Anyway the main idea is teaching the real life lesson to the boys.

[mrBUGOR80]

Тупорылый фильм пиздец жопа а не фильм

[Blackberryboy24]

Good film but sad and no point don't get me wrong I am russian also but really there was no point in this movie !

[almanet]

@Blackberryboy24

А по мне так есть смысл.

[Blackberryboy24]

@almanet A pochemu? A kakoyy?

[Blackberryboy24]

@almanet A Kakoyy ???? A pochemu????

[MasterClassRU]

PyccoTypicmo, thank you so much for your channel.

I enjoy it a lot and, the best part - my non-russian friends enjoy it too.

;)

[gran7praizn7]

Maybe the man lacked true wisdom in his ways of doing things, but who are we to judge what is in a man's heart? We're not God, nor can we make such judgements to call for a man's death, unless he has taken the life of an innocent one!

[gran7praizn7]

What was in the trunk that the dad dug up and put in the boat? The youngest child was very untrusting of his dad and thought only the worse, where I truly believe that the dad loved his sons and just wanted to spend quality time with them and in his own way, show his love, while teaching them to be men. Such a tragic and sad ending.

[johannes14]

@gran7praizn7 no he didnt. he deserves to die if he raises his children like that. if ths is tolerated or even accepted the cycle of cruelty continues.

[hisbride49]

Dark...but worth the watch...

[francois05]

Мне очень понравиться это фильм.

Большое спасибо за уплоад!

[matthias48469]

good movie really though the russian movies are much better than the us movies davai

[HbGris]

great movie, thanks for the upload

loved the song played at the credits :)