Drama Romance Documentary
Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.
Directed by
Inna Tumanyan, Mikhail Kalik
Written by
Mikhail Kalik
Marianna Vertinskaya
girl at party
Lev Kruglyy
muscovite guy
Alisa Freyndlikh
Anya, tram conductor
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
girl at party
Igor Kvasha
guy at party
Valentin Nikulin
lonely guest
Andrey Mironov
guy at party
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
janitor
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
northerner girl
Anastasia Voznesenskaya
girl with a globe
Sergei Gurzo Ml.
Seryozha
Aleksey Eybozhenko
guy at party
Natalya Chetverikova
Vera, Seryozha's girlfriend
Valentina Karavayeva
monologue recorded on tape (voice)
Antonina Leftiy
Nutsa
Mihail Badiceanu
Moraru, Mircea's father
Naum Kavunovsky
hotel administrator
Ion-Gheorghe Şviţchi
Mircea
Lyudmila Vagner
'Blizzard'
Boris Gusev
taxi driver
Anatoly Popov
Aleksandr Mehn
himself (uncredited)

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