Family Relations
1981 Soviet Union film
- 1981 (1981)
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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) 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[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
- 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.[3]
References
External links
- Family Relations at IMDb
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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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