Family Relations

1981 film
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
98 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

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

  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

External links

  • Family Relations at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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