Russian Film- The Return

[Drusilla1S]

I fell asleep watching this last night. Would someone be kind enough to let me know how it ended and did the boys accept their 'father'?

I remember the father giving the eldest boy his watch before the boys went fishing in the boat.

[missjef]

the boys went off fishing & failed to return at 3:30 when they got back the father was furious & hit the elder boy, the younger boy then ran away to that big tower & threatened to throw himself off, the father climbed up the outside of the tower to try & get to the boy the wood gave away & the father fell to his death. the boys put the fathers body in the boat & eventually made their way back to shore. it had a bit of a strange ending, when they got back in the car the elder boy found a photograph (the same one that had been in the book) but in this one the father had disappeared from the photo.
really good film but wasnt quite sure what it meant in the ending. forgot to say that the boat sank with the father in it.

one of the last shots you see was off a man with his arms outstretched in the lake.
also it was strange that the actor who played the elder boy died in a water accident a year after the film was made in st. petersburg. hope this helps you. :-)

[Drusilla1S]

Thank you so much. I was beginning to think no one else had watched it.

What a tragic end for one of the young actors. I feel quite sad about that.