---
title: 'The Banishment (2007)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Andrey Zvyagintsev'
released: '2007-05-18'
runtime_minutes: 157
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Russia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-banishment-2007'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488905/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Banishment (2007)

2007 · 157 min · Drama, Romance · Russia

Original title: Изгнание

## Synopsis

The Banishment is a 2007 Russian psychological drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. The film is a loose adaptation of The Laughing Matter, a 1953 novel by Armenian-American writer William Saroyan. It stars Konstantin Lavronenko and Maria Bonnevie.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Andrey Zvyagintsev](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-zvyagintsev)
- **Screenplay:** [Andrey Zvyagintsev](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-zvyagintsev), [Oleg Negin](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-negin), [Artyom Melkumyan](https://cinepixo.com/people/artyom-melkumyan)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Arvo Pärt](https://cinepixo.com/people/arvo-part)
- **Producer:** [Dmitry Lesnevsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitry-lesnevsky)
- **Director of Photography:** [Mikhail Krichman](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-krichman)

## Cast

- [Vyacheslav Butenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/vyacheslav-butenko)
- [Maksim Shibayev](https://cinepixo.com/people/maksim-shibayev)
- [Elena Lyadova](https://cinepixo.com/people/elena-lyadova)
- [Konstantin Lavronenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-lavronenko)
- [Dmitriy Ulyanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitriy-ulyanov)
- [Maria Bonnevie](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-bonnevie)
- [Yekaterina Kulkina](https://cinepixo.com/people/yekaterina-kulkina)
- [Vitaliy Kishchenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/vitaliy-kishchenko)
- [Aleksey Vertkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksey-vertkov)
- [Yaroslava Nikolaeva](https://cinepixo.com/people/yaroslava-nikolaeva)
- [Aleksandr Baluev](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-baluev)

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