| 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 (ru|Родня|Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.[1]
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.[3]