To Love
1968-01-29
73 mins
The Plot
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?”.
Cast and Crew
Sergei Gurzo Ml.
Seryozha
Lev Kruglyy
muscovite guy
Antonina Leftiy
Nutsa
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
northerner girl
Alisa Freyndlikh
Anya, tram conductor
Ion-Gheorghe Şviţchi
Mircea
Aleksey Eybozhenko
guy at party
Marianna Vertinskaya
girl at party
Igor Kvasha
guy at party
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
girl at party
Andrey Mironov
guy at party
Anastasia Voznesenskaya
girl with a globe
Valentin Nikulin
lonely guest
Natalya Chetverikova
Vera, Seryozha's girlfriend
Lyudmila Vagner
'Blizzard'
Mihail Badiceanu
Moraru, Mircea's father
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
janitor
Boris Gusev
taxi driver
Naum Kavunovsky
hotel administrator
Anatoly Popov
Valentina Karavayeva
monologue recorded on tape (voice)
Aleksandr Mehn
himself (uncredited)