Waiting for Love (film)

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Waiting for Love
Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова
Original film poster
Directed byPyotr Todorovsky
Written bySergei Bodrov
StarringLyudmila Gurchenko
Sergey Shakurov
Svetlana Ponomareva
Natalya Nazarova
Production
company
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
79 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Waiting for Love (Russian: Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова, romanizedLyubimaya 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[edit]

  • 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Film: 'Waiting For Love,' A Light Comedy From The Soviet Union". philly-archives.
  2. ^ 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, ...
  3. ^ Soviet Screen 1984 - Page 74 Двадцать четыре часа из жизни женщины (Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова)

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