| Family Relations | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Written by | Viktor Merezhko |
| Starring | Nonna Mordyukova Svetlana Kryuchkova Yuri Bogatyryov |
| Cinematography | Pavel Lebeshev |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
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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.
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.
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.