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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?”.
Keywords
haystack
wedding
railway station
tram
birch forest
horse cart
Casts

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)
Yan Ebner
Crews

Mikhail Kalik
Director

Inna Tumanyan
Director

Isai Kuznetsov
Story

Ion Druţă
Story

Mikael Tariverdiev
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Sapozhnikov
Story
Aurelia Roman
Production Design
Zhanna Dubchak
Editor
Stanislav Bulgakov
Production Design

Mikhail Kalik
Writer
Yury Kazakov
Story
Yuri Ogandzhanov
Sound
Naum Markzitser
Makeup Artist

Avenir Zak
Story

Dmitri Motornyy
Director of Photography

Arkadi Koltsaty
Camera Operator
Backdrops & Posters

