Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev (born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film The Return (2003) won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Following The Return, Zvyagintsev directed The Banishment and Elena (2011). His film Leviathan (2014) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His most recent film Loveless won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. He also won the Achievement in Directing award for this film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Above information from Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 6, 1964 (62)
- Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR [now Russia]
- Director, actor and writer, also editor and producer
- 5 on MovieCove · 18 credits in all
Known for
What are Andrey Zvyagintsev's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 0 · Dark 5
Grounded 3 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 4
Steady 3 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 5
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 3
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Andrey Zvyagintsev's films?
As of October 24, 2026, none of Andrey Zvyagintsev's 5 MovieCove titles is streaming on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Andrey Zvyagintsev's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted.
Filmography
18 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 5 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Minotaur(2026)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Cannes 2026 With Anton Dolin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Who Left the Light… (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Loveless(2017)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Leviathan(2014)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all filmsMystery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Elena(2011)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Experiment 5ive (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Apocrypha (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Banishment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
The Return(2003)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Busido (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Black Room (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Kamenskaya (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Reflection (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
The Little Cat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
What a Mess! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Leviathan - The Making Of (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 18 titles, 17 of them dated from 1995 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Return (2003)
Highest rated
The Return (2003)
Most popular right now
Minotaur (2026)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Andrey Zvyagintsev's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 95th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 94th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
Shape of the crowd
None of their 5 titles divides audiences: 3 are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Crowd Pleaser2
Reviewers score the atmosphere 86/100 and the pacing 44/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Andrey Zvyagintsev's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Andrey Zvyagintsev work with?
People who share at least 2 of Andrey Zvyagintsev's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Mikhail Krichman shares the most, 5.
Writers
- Oleg NeginShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Oleg Negin
Actors
- Aleksey RozinShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Aleksey Rozin
- Elena LyadovaShared titles: Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Elena Lyadova
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Mikhail KrichmanShared titles: Minotaur (2026), Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011), The Return (2003)See all 5 shared titles with Mikhail Krichman
- Anna MassShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Anna Mass
- Evgueni GalperineShared titles: Minotaur (2026), Loveless (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Evgueni Galperine
- Sacha GalperineShared titles: Minotaur (2026), Loveless (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Sacha Galperine
Producers
- Alexander RodnyanskyShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Alexander Rodnyansky
- Ekaterina MarakulinaShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Ekaterina Marakulina
- Sergey MelkumovShared titles: Loveless (2017), Leviathan (2014), Elena (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Sergey Melkumov
- Olivier PèreShared titles: Minotaur (2026), Loveless (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Olivier Père
