Retour à Kotelnitch
2003, French. Directed by Emmanuel Carrère.
A film ‘twin’ to the novel My Life as a Russian Novel, this documentary charts Carrère’s journey to Kotelnitch, a town some 800 km east of Moscow, as he investigates what happened to a Hungarian POW, and then the young Ania. Through exploring the lives of others the writer finds the courage to tell his own story.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 30 August 2003
- Country
- France
- Written by
- Emmanuel Carrère
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Retour à Kotelnitch runs 105 minutes (1h 45m).
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Retour à Kotelnitch isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 30 August 2003. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Retour à Kotelnitch?
Retour à Kotelnitch (2003) was directed by Emmanuel Carrère.