Family Relations () 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.