Waiting for Love (film) explained
Waiting for Love (Russian: Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова|Lyubimaya zhenshchina mekhanika Gavrilova) is a 1981 Soviet romantic comedy film directed by Pyotr Todorovsky starring Ludmila Gurchenko and Sergei Shakurov.[1] [2] The film is set in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.[3]
Cast
- Lyudmila Gurchenko as Margarita Solovyova, Rita
- Sergey Shakurov as Lev Gavrilov, Rita's groom
- Svetlana Ponomareva as Tanya, Rita's daughter
- Natalya Nazarova as Lusya, hairdresser, Rita's friend
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Rita's uncle
- Stanislav Sokolov as Viktor, lawyer, Lusya's husband
- Vsevolod Shilovsky as Pasha, photographer
- Anatoly Vasilyev as Slava, physician for the recruitment commission
- Mikhail Svetin as Vitya, musician, theater worker
- Alexander Goloborodko as watcher
- Lyudmila Arinina as waitress
- Vadim Alexandrov as client of the studio
- Vasily Vekshin as passer-by
- Pavel Vinnik as episode
- Inna Vykhodtsev as mother with milk
- David Giorgobiani as Rezo
- Lily Yevstigneyeva as woman with underwear
- Lia Kapanadze as Rezo's mother
- Olesya Malakhova as episode
- Ivan Matveev as grandfather with a horse
- Andrey Nikolaev as groom-morjachok
- Mikhail Rozanov as groom
- Galina Samokhina as visitor lawyer
- Elena Sotnikova as bride
- Galina Starikova as episode
- Shota Skhirtladze as Georgian-driver
- Zurab Tsintskiladze as episode
Notes and References
- Web site: Film: 'Waiting For Love,' A Light Comedy From The Soviet Union. philly-archives.
- Anna Lawton Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time 1992 0521388147 p.42 "Quite different in tone are the films of Pyotr Todorovsky, Waiting for Love (1983) and A Wartime Romance (1984). These are delightfully unpretentious comedies, ...
- Soviet Screen 1984 - Page 74 Двадцать четыре часа из жизни женщины (Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова)
