To Love

To Love

73 mins | Drama, Documentary, Romance | Jan. 29, 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?”.

To Love

73 mins | Drama, Documentary, Romance | Jan. 29, 1968

To Love
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?”.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Moldova Film, Gorky Film Studios
Original title Любить…
Directors Inna Tumanyan, Mikhail Kalik
Writers Vladimir Sapozhnikov, Yury Kazakov, Ion Druţă, Avenir Zak, Isai Kuznetsov, Mikhail Kalik

Cast

Sergei Gurzo Ml.

as Seryozha

Lev Kruglyy

as muscovite guy

Antonina Leftiy

as Nutsa

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

as northerner girl

Alisa Freyndlikh

as Anya, tram conductor

Aleksey Eybozhenko

as guy at party

Marianna Vertinskaya

as girl at party

Igor Kvasha

as guy at party

Yekaterina Vasilyeva

as girl at party

Andrey Mironov

as guy at party

Anastasia Voznesenskaya

as girl with a globe

Valentin Nikulin

as lonely guest

Natalya Chetverikova

as Vera, Seryozha's girlfriend

Lyudmila Vagner

as 'Blizzard'

Mihail Badiceanu

as Moraru, Mircea's father

Boris Gusev

as taxi driver

Naum Kavunovsky

as hotel administrator

Valentina Karavayeva

as monologue recorded on tape (voice)

Aleksandr Mehn

as himself (uncredited)