Poor Relatives
| Poor Relatives | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover with Russian title: Бедные родственники | |
| Bednye Rodstvenniki | |
| Directed by | Pavel Lungin |
| Written by | Gennady Ostrovsky |
| Produced by | Catherine Dussart Pavel Lungin Olga Vasilyeva |
| Starring | Konstantin Khabensky Sergei Garmash[1] Marina Golub Daniil Spivakovsky Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Leonid Kanevsky |
| Cinematography | Mikhail Krichman |
| Edited by | Sophie Brunet |
| Music by | Michelle Arbatts Roche Ave Yuval Misenmasher |
| Distributed by | Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP) Onix Arte France Cinema |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | Russia France |
| Language | Russian |
Poor Relatives (Russian: Бедные родственники, romanized: Bednye Rodstvenniki), also released as Roots, is a 2005 Russian black comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin.[2]
The film tells the story of a Russian grifter who defrauds foreigners by introducing them to ordinary people hired to pose as long lost relatives.[3]
Plot
[edit | edit source]Young con artist with a rather nice personality, Edik (Konstantin Khabensky) gets in trouble gathering long lost foreign relatives together. Wealthy and middle-class émigrés who have made it in the new lands (the Americas, Israel) return to the homeland, to the roots from which they were severed. The implicit motivation for their return is the search for spiritual nourishment, and so the émigrés sacrifice the material comforts of their villas and Western civilization to journey to their ancestral past, the timeless village of Golotvin. They believe that here they will be able to complete themselves by reconnecting with their heritage. All for the nominal fee of Edik, a free agent and a small-time crook who orchestrates an elaborate crime with the intention of earning a pile of money by tricking a group of pilgrims into thinking that a small village is their homeland and its inhabitants are their long lost relatives. The levels of deception multiply quickly...
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Konstantin Khabensky as Edik
- Leonid Kanevsky as Baroukh
- Sergei Garmash as Yacha
- Natalya Kolyakanova as Regina
- Esther Gorintin as Esther
- Otto Tausig as Samuel
- Miglen Mirtchev as Andrew
- Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Marc-Yves
Awards
[edit | edit source]Kinotavr (2005)
[edit | edit source]Source:[4]
- Main Prize
- Best Male Actor (Konstantin Khabensky)
- Best Script (Gennady Ostrovsky)
- Prize of the Governor of Kuban
White Elephant (2005)
[edit | edit source]- Best Male Supporting Actor (Sergei Garmash)[5]
Golden Aries (2006)
[edit | edit source]- Best Male Actor in the Popular Vote (Konstantin Khabensky)[6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Номинанты Национальной кинематографической премии «НИКА» за 2005 год Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ Открытый Российский кинофестиваль «Кинотавр»: Призеры 1991-2005 гг. Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine Kinotavr.ru
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Bednye rodstvenniki at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 2005 films
- 2000s Russian films
- 2000s Russian-language films
- 2005 comedy-drama films
- 2005 black comedy films
- Films directed by Pavel Lungin
- French black comedy films
- Russian comedy-drama films
- Russian black comedy films
- Films about con artists
- 2000s French films
- Russian-language comedy-drama films
- Russian-language black comedy films
- 2000s Russian film stubs