Family Relations

This article is about the 1970 film. For the academic journal, see Family Relations (journal).

Family Relations (Russian: Родня, romanized: Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.^[1]

Family Relations
Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Written by	Viktor Merezhko
Starring	Nonna Mordyukova Svetlana Kryuchkova Yuri Bogatyryov
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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]