Here is a collection of scripts for films by the famous Russian film director, laureate of the main awards of the Venice and Cannes film festivals Andrei Zvyagintsev. The book includes scripts for such popular films of the director as "Return," "Exile," "Elena," "Leviathan" and "Dislike." The scripts written by Zvyagintsev in collaboration with Oleg Negin are accompanied by comments from authors, as well as other specialists from the film industry - Alexander Novototsky and Vladimir Moiseenko. If we draw a parallel with fiction, then the book "Scripts of Andrei Zvyagintsev's films" can be compared with diary entries, excerpts from notebooks and drafts of writers. How does the creative process take place for the screenwriter and director? What should be the scenario? And how is it transformed into a finished product that will be seen by millions of viewers?..