RUSSIA: RUSSIAN FILM WINS TOP PRIZE AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL...

(From InfoProd)

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 …