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Family Relations

Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Written by	Viktor Merezhko
Starring	Nonna Mordyukova Svetlana Kryuchkova Yuri Bogatyryov
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Family Relations (Russian: Родня, romanized: Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

Plot

A rural woman, Mariya Konovalova (Nonna Mordyukova) travels to the regional center to visit her daughter Nina (Svetlana Kryuchkova), and her beloved granddaughter Irishka (Fedor Stukov). This good-natured and simple-minded woman cannot imagine the world they are living in - the dearest and perhaps the only people close to her. In her attempts to understand their views on life and improve her daughter’s strained relationship with her ex-husband, she inadvertently brings them all a great deal of grief.

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova as Maria Konovalova
Svetlana Kryuchkova as Nina, Maria's daughter
Yuri Bogatyryov as Tasik, Nina's husband
Andrei Petrov as Liapin, Maria's fellow traveler
Fyodor Stukov as Irishka, Nina's daughter
Ivan Bortnik as Vovchik, Maria's ex-husband
Oleg Menshikov as Kirill, Vovchik's son
Vsevolod Larionov as Lieutenant-General in the train
Nikita Mikhalkov as waiter
Aleksandr Adabashyan as Sanya the Waiter / man with glass at the train station
Sergey Gazarov as Kirill's guest

Production

The main part of the film was shot in Dnepropetrovsk, nowadays - Dnipro, Ukraine, scenes in the restaurant — in Pushchino (Moscow Oblast), runner — at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex in Kyiv.

References

External links

Family Relations at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
A Girl and Things (1967) And I Go Home (1968) A Quiet Day During the End of War (1970) At Home Among Strangers (1974) A Slave of Love (1976) An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977) Five Evenings (1978) Oblomov (1980) Family Relations (1981) Without Witness (1983) Dark Eyes (1987) Hitch-hiking (1990) Close to Eden (1992) Remembering Chekhov (1993) Anna: 6–18 (1993) Burnt by the Sun (1994) The Barber of Siberia (1998) Russians Deprived of Russia (2003) 12 (2007) Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010) Burnt by the Sun 3: The Citadel (2011) Sunstroke (2014) Chocolate Revolver (2019)

Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

A Girl and Things (1967)
And I Go Home (1968)
A Quiet Day During the End of War (1970)
At Home Among Strangers (1974)
A Slave of Love (1976)
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)
Five Evenings (1978)
Oblomov (1980)
Family Relations (1981)
Without Witness (1983)
Dark Eyes (1987)
Hitch-hiking (1990)
Close to Eden (1992)
Remembering Chekhov (1993)
Anna: 6–18 (1993)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Russians Deprived of Russia (2003)
12 (2007)
Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
Burnt by the Sun 3: The Citadel (2011)
Sunstroke (2014)
Chocolate Revolver (2019)

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