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
Mikhail Kalik, Inna Tumanyan
Written by
Mikhail Kalik
Anastasia Voznesenskaya
girl with a globe
Lev Kruglyy
muscovite guy
Valentin Nikulin
lonely guest
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
girl at party
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
janitor
Andrey Mironov
guy at party
Igor Kvasha
guy at party
Valentina Karavayeva
monologue recorded on tape (voice)
Alisa Freyndlikh
Anya, tram conductor
Marianna Vertinskaya
girl at party
Antonina Leftiy
Nutsa
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
northerner girl
Aleksey Eybozhenko
guy at party
Mihail Badiceanu
Moraru, Mircea's father
Natalya Chetverikova
Vera, Seryozha's girlfriend
Sergei Gurzo Ml.
Seryozha
Naum Kavunovsky
hotel administrator
Ion-Gheorghe Şviţchi
Mircea
Lyudmila Vagner
'Blizzard'
Yan Ebner
Boris Gusev
taxi driver
Anatoly Popov
Aleksandr Mehn
himself (uncredited)

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