To Love (1968)
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?”.
Directors: Mikhail Kalik, Inna Tumanyan.
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Sergei Gurzo Ml. as Seryozha |
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Lev Kruglyy as muscovite guy |
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Antonina Leftiy as Nutsa |
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Svetlana Svetlichnaya as northerner girl |
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Alisa Freyndlikh as Anya, tram conductor |
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Ion-Gheorghe Şviţchi as Mircea |
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Aleksey Eybozhenko as guy at party |
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Marianna Vertinskaya as girl at party |
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Igor Kvasha as guy at party |
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Yekaterina Vasilyeva as girl at party |
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Andrey Mironov as guy at party |
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Anastasia Voznesenskaya as girl with a globe |
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Valentin Nikulin as lonely guest |
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Natalya Chetverikova as Vera, Seryozha's girlfriend |
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Lyudmila Vagner as 'Blizzard' |
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Mihail Badiceanu as Moraru, Mircea's father |
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Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina as janitor |
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Boris Gusev as taxi driver |
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Naum Kavunovsky as hotel administrator |
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Anatoly Popov as |
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Valentina Karavayeva as monologue recorded on tape (voice) |
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Aleksandr Mehn as himself (uncredited) |
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Yan Ebner as |
| Directing | Mikhail Kalik | Director |
| Directing | Inna Tumanyan | Director |
| Writing | Isai Kuznetsov | Story |
| Writing | Vladimir Sapozhnikov | Story |
| Writing | Ion Druta | Story |
| Writing | Avenir Zak | Story |
| Writing | Yury Kazakov | Story |
| Writing | Mikhail Kalik | Writer |
| Camera | Dmitri Motornyy | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Mikael Tariverdiev | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Arkadi Koltsaty | Camera Operator |
| Art | Stanislav Bulgakov | Production Design |
| Art | Aurelia Roman | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Naum Markzitser | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Zhanna Dubchak | Editor |
| Writing | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Lyricist |
| Sound | Yuri Ogandzhanov | Sound Director |
| Directing | Iosef Sosland | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Brusin | Camera Operator |
| Writing | A. Konunov | Script Editor |
| Directing | L. Lysenko | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | V. Burlacu | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Ishutin | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Vladimir Odolskiy | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | A. Cius | Assistant Camera |
| Production | M. Shcherbak | Executive Producer |
| Editing | N. Kuptsov? | Editor |