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Article: RUSSIAN FILM WINS TOP PRIZE AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL...
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
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- September 17, 2003
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Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev has won this year's Golden
Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for "The Return" -- his first
feature-length movie, RFE/RL reported on 8 September. Zvyagintsev's
film tells the story of a father's reacquaintance with his two sons
after an absence of 12 years. The father, played by Konstantin
Lavronenko, takes his two now-teenage boys on a trip to an island
where the three characters attempt to renew their relationship in an
undisturbed setting. International critics hailed ...