
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

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
Unknown

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

Mikhail Kalik
Director, Writer

Inna Tumanyan
Director

Isai Kuznetsov
Story
Vladimir Sapozhnikov
Story

Avenir Zak
Story

Ion Druta
Story
Yury Kazakov
Story
Zhanna Dubchak
Editor
Dmitri Motornyy
Director of Photography
Aurelia Roman
Production Design
Stanislav Bulgakov
Production Design

Arkadi Koltsaty
Camera Operator
Naum Markzitser
Makeup Artist
Yuri Ogandzhanov
Sound

Mikael Tariverdiev
Original Music Composer
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