«The Return of the Prodigal Son» is the first volume from the film (novel) of Anatoli Vassiliev’s «Empire» inside the Dau cycle. The story is about inner kinship, which is much closer than blood, about inevitable betrayal, about almost fatherly love and forgiveness. Cigarettes (papirossa), images from «Faust» and «Don Juan», walks in the Soviet Park of culture... And a terrible, narrow gap inside the brutal regime where you have to be skilled enough to survive... Yes! and they also play gorodki (skittles) with childish passion!
Released: May 04, 2020
Runtime: 132 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Anatoly Vasiliev, Teodor Currentzis, Inna Schorr, Mikhail Fikhtengolts, Vyacheslav Kolyus, Nikolai Gubarev
Crew: Ilya Khrzhanovsky (Director), Anatoly Vasiliev (Director), Alexey Slyusarchuk (Sound Editor), Denis Shibanov (Production Design), Jürgen Jürges (Director of Photography), Sergey Adonyev (Producer)