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Family Relations
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Wikipedia article
'Family Relations' is a 1981 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.[http://www.tvc.ru/channel/brand/id/76/show/news/news_id/948 ]
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 daughters difficult relationship with her ex-husband, she brings them all to a lot of grief.
Cast
* Nonna Mordyukova as Maria Konovalova[http://gazeta.aif.ru/_/online/superstar/51/20_01 : ], gazeta.aif.ru
* 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100602081131/http://www.roman-chuk.narod.ru/8/rodnja.htm ]
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