| Family Relations | |
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| Directed by | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Written by | Viktor Merezhko |
| Starring | Nonna Mordyukova Svetlana Kryuchkova Yuri Bogatyryov |
| Cinematography | Pavel Lebeshev |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
Release date |
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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) 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
- ^ Тайны нашего кино
- ^ Виктор Мережко: «Роль Мордюковой я писал со своей тещи», gazeta.aif.ru
- ^ В Днепропетровске Никита Михалков наводил ужас на детвору
External links
- Family Relations at IMDb
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