The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня (Rodnya) in Russian sounds very similar to the word Родина (Rodina), which means "Motherland." The film features three generations of women — Maria, her daughter Nina, and her granddaughter Irina — symbolizing three different Russias: one from the past, one modern, and one representing the future.
Nonna Mordyukova
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Andrei Petrov
Ivan Bortnik
Yuri Bogatyryov
Fyodor Stukov
Vsevolod Larionov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Larisa Kuznetsova
Oleg Menshikov
Alexander Adabashyan
Ruslan Akhmetov
Yu. Babintsev
G. Belgovskaya
Valentina Berezutskaya
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Viktor Buturlin
Inna Vykhodtseva
Sergey Gazarov
Eduard Gimpel
Aleksandr Gordienko
Zinoviy Grizik
V. Grishin
Anna Gulyarenko
Yuri Gusev
V. Egorov
A. Zakharkin
Gennadiy Ivanov
Svetlana Konovalova
Tamara Kudrina
Elena Kuritsina
Pavel Lebeshev
Rimma Markova
Valeriy Melkonyan
Aleksandr Mishin
Viktor Nikitin
O. Obyedkov
I. Petrova
Tatiana Pokhlo
V. Ripp
Aleksandr Sinelnikov
V. Fedosov
Vladimir Khotinenko
Vasiliy Tsygankov
Evgeny Tsymbal
Aleksey Yakubov
Ludmila Kudryavtceva
Raisa Sazonova
Aleleandr Sushchik
Ivan Turchenkov