original title:
The Return
italian title:
Il ritorno
directed by:
cast:
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Marwan Kenzari, Charlie Plummer, Fabius de Vivo, Claudio Santamaria, Ángela Molina, Tom Rhys Harries, Amir Wilson, Jamie Andrew Cutler, Moe Bar-El, Aaron Cobham, Roberto Serpi, Cosimo Desii, Nicolas Retrivi, Francesco Dwight Bianchi, Amesh Edireweera, Jaz Hutchins, Ayman Al Aboud, Giorgio Antonini, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Stefano Santomauro, Maxim Gallozzi, Magaajyia Silberfeld, Handrinou Ileana, Karandish Hanie
screenplay:
John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini, from the poem "Odyssey" by Homer
cinematography:
editing:
David Charap
set design:
costume design:
music:
production:
Picomedia, Heretic, Red Wave Films, Kabo Films, Marvelous Productions, Rai Cinema, Greek Film Centre, ERT SA
distribution:
01 Distribution [Italy], Cinemania [Albania], The Searchers [Belgium], Cinemania [Bosnia and Herzegovina], Mongrel Media [Canada], Cinemania [Croatia], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Egypt], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Iraq], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Jordan], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Kuwait], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Lebanon], Cinemania [Montenegro], The Searchers [Netherlands], Cinemania [North Macedonia], Monolith Films [Poland], Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais [Portugal], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Qatar], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [Saudi Arabia], Cinemania [Serbia], Shaw [Singapore], Cinemania [Slovenia], Filmfinity [South Africa], Front Row Filmed Entertainment [United Arab Emirates], Bleecker Street [United States]
world sales:
country:
Italy/Greece/UK/France
year:
2024
film run:
116'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (22/07/2024)
festivals & awards:
After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognisable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus, who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom.
Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.