Family Relations
Family Relations is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.
Plot
A rural woman, Mariya Konovalova travels to the regional center to visit her daughter Nina, and her beloved granddaughter Irishka. 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 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
- Sergey Gazarov as Kirill's guest
Production