Family Relations
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{{Infobox film
| name = Family Relations
| image =Rodnya Mikhalkov.jpg
| director = Nikita Mikhalkov
| writer = Viktor Merezhko
| producer =
| starring = Nonna Mordyukova
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Yuri Bogatyryov
| cinematography = Pavel Lebeshev
| music = Eduard Artemyev
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| runtime = 98 minutes
| released = {{Film date|1981|df=yes}}
}}
Family Relations ({{langx|ru|Родня|Rodnya}}) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.[http://www.tvc.ru/channel/brand/id/76/show/news/news_id/948 Тайны нашего кино]
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[http://gazeta.aif.ru/_/online/superstar/51/20_01 Виктор Мережко: «Роль Мордюковой я писал со своей тещи»], gazeta.aif.ru
- 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100602081131/http://www.roman-chuk.narod.ru/8/rodnja.htm В Днепропетровске Никита Михалков наводил ужас на детвору]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|83004}}
{{Nikita Mikhalkov}}
Category:1981 comedy-drama films
Category:Soviet comedy-drama films
Category:Russian-language comedy-drama films
Category:Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Category:Films scored by Eduard Artemyev
Category:1980s Russian-language films
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