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Family Relations (1981)

Family Relations poster
Original title
Родня
Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman visits her adult daughter and is drawn into the small dramas and quiet tensions of family life. The film looks at how love and frustration mix in ordinary relationships.

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What happens

Family Relations (Russian: Родня, romanized: Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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