Poor Relatives
{{Infobox film
| name = Poor Relatives
| native_name = Bednye Rodstvenniki
| image = Poor Relatives FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = DVD cover with Russian title: Бедные родственники
| director = Pavel Lungin
| producer = Catherine Dussart
Pavel Lungin
Olga Vasilyeva
| writer = Gennady Ostrovsky
| narrator =
| starring = Konstantin Khabensky
Sergei Garmash[http://kino-nika.com/the-national-award/nominee/155--2005.html Номинанты Национальной кинематографической премии «НИКА» за 2005 год] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222095541/http://kino-nika.com/the-national-award/nominee/155--2005.html |date=2015-12-22 }}
Marina Golub
Daniil Spivakovsky
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Leonid Kanevsky
| music = Michelle Arbatts
Roche Ave
Yuval Misenmasher
| cinematography = Mikhail Krichman
| editing = Sophie Brunet
| distributor = Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP)
Onix
Arte France Cinema
| released = {{Film date|2005}}
| runtime = 103 minutes
| language = Russian
| budget =
}}
Poor Relatives ({{langx|ru|Бедные родственники|Bednye Rodstvenniki}}), also released as Roots, is a 2005 Russian black comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin.{{Cite web|url=https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/5670/|publisher=Russia-1|title=Бедные родственники. Х/ф}}
The film tells the story of a Russian grifter who defrauds foreigners by introducing them to ordinary people hired to pose as long lost relatives.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/roots-2-1200524979/|work=Variety|title=A Russian grifter fleeces foreigners by introducing them to ordinary folk hired to pose as long lost relatives in director Pavel Loungine's bawdy, bubbly black comedy "Roots."}}
Plot
Young con artist with a rather nice personality, Edik (Konstantin Khabensky) gets in trouble gathering long lost foreign relatives together. Wealthy and middle-class émigrés who have made it in the new lands (the Americas, Israel) return to the homeland, to the roots from which they were severed. The implicit motivation for their return is the search for spiritual nourishment, and so the émigrés sacrifice the material comforts of their villas and Western civilization to journey to their ancestral past, the timeless village of Golotvin. They believe that here they will be able to complete themselves by reconnecting with their heritage. All for the nominal fee of Edik, a free agent and a small-time crook who orchestrates an elaborate crime with the intention of earning a pile of money by tricking a group of pilgrims into thinking that a small village is their homeland and its inhabitants are their long lost relatives. The levels of deception multiply quickly...
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky as Edik
- Leonid Kanevsky as Baroukh
- Sergei Garmash as Yacha
- Natalya Kolyakanova as Regina
- Esther Gorintin as Esther
- Otto Tausig as Samuel
- Miglen Mirtchev as Andrew
- Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Marc-Yves
Awards
=[[Kinotavr]] (2005)=
- Main Prize
- Best Male Actor (Konstantin Khabensky)
- Best Script (Gennady Ostrovsky)
- Prize of the Governor of Kuban
=[[Russian Guild of Film Critics|White Elephant]] (2005)=
=[[Russian Guild of Film Critics|Golden Aries]] (2006)=
References
{{Reflist|2}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0464632|title=Bednye rodstvenniki}}
{{Pavel Lungin}}
Category:2000s Russian-language films
Category:2005 comedy-drama films
Category:2005 black comedy films
Category:Films directed by Pavel Lungin
Category:French black comedy films
Category:Russian comedy-drama films
Category:Russian black comedy films
Category:Films about con artists
Category:2000s French filmsCategory:Russian-language comedy-drama films
Category:Russian-language black comedy films
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