Family Relations
# Family Relations

Family Relations (Russian: Родня, romanized: Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

## 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
* 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.

