''Family Relations'' () is a 1981 Soviet

comedy-drama film Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc. ...

directed by

Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (; born 21 October 1945) is a Russian filmmaker and actor. He made his directorial debut with the Red Western film ''At Home Among Strangers'' (1974) after appearing in a series of films, including the romantic com ...

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 Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Ноябри́на (Но́нна) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star o ...

as Maria Konovalova * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Nina, Maria's daughter *

Yuri Bogatyryov Yuri Georgiyevich Bogatyryov ( rus, Ю́рий Гео́ргиевич Богатырёв, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ bəɡətɨˈrʲɵf; 2 March 1947 – 2 February 1989) was a Soviet actor, best known for his roles in five films ...

as Tasik, Nina's husband *

Andrei Petrov Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (; 2 September 1930, Leningrad – 15 February 2006, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet ...

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 Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000 Lieutenant-General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was normall ...

in the train *

as waiter * Aleksandr Adabashyan as Sanya the Waiter / man with glass at the train station *

Sergey Gazarov Sergey Ishkanovich Gazarov (, ; born January 13, 1958) is a Russian and former Soviet actor and filmmaker of Armenian origin. He has been the art director of the Moscow Satire Theatre from 2021 to 2024. Biography Gazarov was born in Baku, Sov ...

as Kirill's guest

Production

The main part of the film was shot in Dnepropetrovsk, nowadays -

Dnipro, Ukraine Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

, scenes in the restaurant — in

Pushchino Pushchino ( rus, Пущино, p=ˈpuɕːɪnə) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, an important scientific center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Situated south of Moscow, and 13 km south-east of Serpukhov, on the right side of the Ok ...

(Moscow Oblast), runner — at the

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in Kyiv.В Днепропетровске Никита Михалков наводил ужас на детвору
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References

External links

* 1981 comedy-drama films 1981 films Soviet comedy-drama films Russian-language comedy-drama films Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov Films scored by Eduard Artemyev Mosfilm films 1980s Soviet films 1980s Russian-language films {{1980s-USSR-film-stub