Family Relations

Family Relations
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;
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.^[1]

Plot

A rural woman Mariya Konovalova (Nonna Mordyukova) goes to the regional center to visit her daughter Nina (Svetlana Kryuchkova), and beloved granddaughter Irishka (Fedor Stukov). A good and simple-minded woman can not imagine what kind of world they are living - the dearest and, perhaps, the only people close to her. Trying to deal with their ideas about life and being willing to improve her daughter's difficult relationship with her ex-husband, she brings them all to a lot of grief.

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova as Maria Konovalova^[2]
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

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.^[3]

References

External links

Family Relations at IMDb

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[1] Тайны нашего кино

[2] Виктор Мережко: «Роль Мордюковой я писал со своей тещи», gazeta.aif.ru

[3] В Днепропетровске Никита Михалков наводил ужас на детвору

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