Poor Relatives

{{Infobox film | name = Poor Relatives | native_name = '''''Bednye Rodstvenniki''''' | image = Poor Relatives FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = DVD cover with Russian title: ''Бедные родственники'' | director = Pavel Lungin | producer = Catherine Dussart Pavel Lungin Olga Vasilyeva | writer = Gennady Ostrovsky | narrator = | starring = Konstantin Khabensky Sergei Garmash<ref>[http://kino-nika.com/the-national-award/nominee/155--2005.html Номинанты Национальной кинематографической премии «НИКА» за 2005 год] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222095541/http://kino-nika.com/the-national-award/nominee/155--2005.html |date=2015-12-22 }}</ref> Marina Golub Daniil Spivakovsky Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Leonid Kanevsky | music = Michelle Arbatts Roche Ave Yuval Misenmasher | cinematography = Mikhail Krichman | editing = Sophie Brunet | distributor = Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP) Onix Arte France Cinema | released = {{Film date|2005}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = Russia France | language = Russian | budget = }}

'''''Poor Relatives''''' ({{langx|ru|Бедные родственники|Bednye Rodstvenniki}}), also released as '''''Roots''''', is a 2005 Russian black comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/5670/|publisher=Russia-1|title=Бедные родственники. Х/ф}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/roots-2-1200524979/|work=Variety|title=A Russian grifter fleeces foreigners by introducing them to ordinary folk hired to pose as long lost relatives in director Pavel Loungine's bawdy, bubbly black comedy "Roots."}}</ref>

==Plot== A 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 == * 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== ===Kinotavr (2005)=== Source:<ref name="Кинотавр">[http://www.kinotavr.ru/ru/history/winners/ Открытый Российский кинофестиваль «Кинотавр»: Призеры 1991-2005 гг.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806033607/http://www.kinotavr.ru/ru/history/winners/ |date=2012-08-06 }} Kinotavr.ru</ref> *Main Prize *Best Male Actor (Konstantin Khabensky) *Best Script (Gennady Ostrovsky) *Prize of the Governor of Kuban

===White Elephant (2005)=== *Best Male Supporting Actor (Sergei Garmash)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kinopressa.ru/white-elephant/httpkinopressa-rupage_id363|publisher=Russian Guild of Film Critics|title=2005}}</ref>

===Golden Aries (2006)=== *Best Male Actor in the Popular Vote (Konstantin Khabensky)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/129111.html|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|title=Констатину Хабенскому присуждена кинопремия "Золотой Овен"|author=Marina Timasheva}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0464632|title=Bednye rodstvenniki}}

Category:2005 films Category:2005 Russian films Category:2005 Russian-language films Category:2005 comedy-drama films Category:2005 black comedy films Category:Films directed by Pavel Lungin Category:French black comedy films Category:Russian comedy-drama films Category:Russian black comedy films Category:Films about con artists Category:2005 French films Category:Russian-language comedy-drama films Category:Russian-language black comedy films