Tijdens een boekentournee in de Verenigde Staten ontmoet Max en wordt hij verliefd op een jonge vrouw. Vele jaren later keert Max terug naar de Verenigde Staten, in de hoop zich te herenigen met zijn jonge minnaar.
Nee, helaas is Rückkehr nach Montauk nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Camera | Jérôme Alméras | Director of Photography |
| Art | Eva Fischer | Assistant Decorator |
| Production | Stéphane Parthenay | Co-Producer |
| Production | Sabine Schenk | Line Producer |
| Production | Olivier Père | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Til Schweiger | Co-Producer |
| Production | Sidonie Dumas | Producer |
| Production | Claudia Simionescu | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Marc Gabizon | Co-Producer |
| Production | Volker Schlöndorff | Producer |
| Production | John Keville | Co-Producer |
| Production | Bettina Ricklefs | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Regina Ziegler | Producer |
| Production | Holger Reibiger | Line Producer |
| Production | Götz Schmedes | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Rainer Kölmel | Producer |
| Production | Mike Downey | Co-Producer |
| Production | Andreas Schreitmüller | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Tom Zickler | Co-Producer |
| Production | Rémi Burah | Supervising Producer |
| Art | Sebastian Soukup | Production Design |
| Production | Christoph Liedke | Co-Producer |
| Production | Conor Barry | Co-Producer |
| Production | Hartmut Köhler | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Francis Boespflug | Co-Producer |
| Directing | Volker Schlöndorff | Director |
| Editing | Hervé Schneid | Editor |
| Sound | Max Richter | Music |
| Writing | Colm Tóibín | Screenplay |
| Writing | Volker Schlöndorff | Screenplay |
| Sound | Michael Bartlett | Music |
| Sound | Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh | Music |