Five completed scripts for Andrey Zvyagintsev's films:

"The Return"
"The Banishment"
"Elena"
"Leviathan"
"Loveless"
The scripts are supplemented by the director's comments, which provide an opportunity to see the working process of creating a film.

Almost all the scripts collected in this book are published for the first time.

About the authors
Andrey Zvyagintsev and his co-author Oleg Negin are the winners of such prestigious awards as the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival (2003), the Cannes Film Festival Prize for Best Screenplay (2014), the Golden Globe (2015) and the French Film Academy Cesar Award (2018) for Best Foreign Language Film.