Relatives

It's Mikhail Ivanovich's birthday, and he's expecting his sons and their wives to visit. His offspring have been fighting for a long time, but for their father's sake, they're feigning brotherly love. They spend the entire day trying to su…

The morning in the Voropaev family begins with a barb-fight between the brothers and their wives. The father, overhearing their conversations, feigns short-term memory loss. The doctor advises the children against arguing with their father…

Mikhail Ivanovich persuades Uncle Nurzhan to help him restore peace between the brothers. After a horse race, Igor and Sergey reminisce about their childhood, and an evening of drinking leads to them returning home hugging each other. Thei…

Mikhail Ivanovich's daughter, Lyusya, comes to visit, aware of the strained relationship between the brothers' families. Together with Uncle Nurzhan's father and daughter, who works as a numerologist, they devise a way to use rituals to fo…

Having left their father's home, Mikhail Ivanovich's sons and their wives go back to the city, where it turns out they're not getting along so well with each other either. Sergei and Ekaterina are unable to have children, and Igor and Irin…

The children return to the village to Mikhail Ivanovich to weather the crisis in their families. Igor's daughter, Daria, refuses to enroll in the university her parents and her influential maternal grandfather, Arkady Semyonovich, are push…

The seemingly simmering rivalry between Sergei and Igor flares up again, but the emerging danger unites the brothers and brings back memories of their youth and school years, their unfulfilled hopes and unfulfilled dreams. The past also to…

Mikhail Ivanovich's escalating conflict with his neighbor, Boris Evgenievich, forces the entire family to pull together. Now the Voropaevs will have to use all their collective imagination and ingenuity to try to save their father from pri…