Return of the Buddha
Return of the Buddha
1994, Russian. Directed by Alexander Brunkovsky.
Winter of 1919, Petrograd. The wind of destruction is blowing through the city. In a frozen apartment, an Oriental professor sees a living incarnation of the Buddha... A Buddha statue found by a professor many years ago in the Gobi Desert turns his life upside down: by the decision of the revolutionary government, he is included in a group that must return the statue to a Mongolian monastery in exchange for cattle for starving Petrograd. Unusual travelers gathered in a cold carriage around a bronze statue. Everyone pursues their own goal...
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 2 May 1994
- Original title
- Возвращение Будды
- Country
- Russia
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Who directed Return of the Buddha?
Return of the Buddha (1994) was directed by Alexander Brunkovsky and stars Anatoli Adoskin, Petr Yandane, Alexander Brunkovsky.