Bednye Rodstvenniki

Bednye Rodstvenniki (Russian: Бедные родственники, Roots, Poor Relatives) is a 2005 comedy film, close in style to "The 12 chairs" and "The Small Golden Calf"; based on the novels by Ilya Ilf and Evgeniy Petrov. Runaway award winner of the Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr", 2005. The stars of the film include Russian actors Konstantin Khabensky and Sergei Garmash. Directed by Pavel Lungin. A young con artist Edik played by Konstantin Khabensky (Night Watch) with rather nice personality 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...