Released:
2020-05-04

Overview:
«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!

Directors:
Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Anatoly Vasiliev

Runtime:
2h 12min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Anatoly Vasiliev
  as
  Anatoly Krupitsa, Director of the Institute (1938-1952)
• 
  Teodor Currentzis
  as
  Dau
• 
  Inna Schorr
  as
  Krupitsa's secretary
• 
  Mikhail Fikhtengolts
  as
  Dau's friend, inspector
• 
  Vyacheslav Kolyus
  as
  Viktor, Window Cleaner