This book contains five completed screenplays for Andrey Zvyagintsev's films: The Return, The Banishment, Elena, Leviathan, and Loveless. The scripts are supplemented by the director's commentary, which provides insight into the filmmaking process. Andrey Zvyagintsev and his co-writer, Oleg Negin, have won prestigious awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (2003), the Cannes Film Festival Prize for Best Screenplay (2014), a Golden Globe (2015), and the César Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2018).