

73 minutes
1/29/1968
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?”.

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
Ion-Gheorghe Şviţchi
as Mircea

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

Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
as janitor
Boris Gusev
as taxi driver

Naum Kavunovsky
as hotel administrator
Anatoly Popov

Valentina Karavayeva
as monologue recorded on tape (voice)
Aleksandr Mehn
as himself (uncredited)
Yan Ebner