Family Relations | |
Starring: | Nonna Mordyukova Svetlana Kryuchkova Yuri Bogatyryov |
Cinematography: | Pavel Lebeshev |
Music: | Eduard Artemyev |
Country: | Soviet Union |
Language: | Russian |
Runtime: | 98 minutes |
Family Relations (Russian: Родня|Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.[1]
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.
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]