Ljubit ... love ...

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Movie
German title Ljubit ... love ...
Original title Любить ...
Country of production USSR ( Moldovan SSR )
original language Russian
Publishing year 1969
length 73 minutes
Rod
Director Mikhail Kalik
script Mikhail Kalik
production Moldova film
music Mikael Tariwerdiev
camera Dmitri Motorny
cut Sch. Dubchak
N. Kupzowa
occupation

Ljubit… Lieben… (Original title: Любить… , Ljubit… ) is a Soviet episode film directed by Mikhail Kalik from 1969 .

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This film consists of four episodes, which are supplemented with documentary recordings of Soviet citizens, who openly and undisguised express themselves about what love means to them.

In the first episode there are three girls and four boys in an apartment having a small party. They talk about all sorts of things, want to explore and improve the world. They also talk about love and why they kiss even though they don't love each other. There is a lot of dancing to slow music from the tape recorder, where you get close. Suddenly the music comes to an end and you can hear a female voice thinking out loud about love for her partner. Everyone listens carefully and is impressed by this intimate declaration of love, especially the young man who apparently belongs to the tape and who is meant. Only he's the only one who's alone at this party.

Sergei brings his girlfriend Julka home in the snowstorm, where they kiss goodbye in the stairwell and give many compliments. Despite the bad weather, he dances happily through town until a tram arrives and he gets on. Except for the crying conductor Anja, nobody is in the car anymore, because the train goes to the depot. Since Sergei wants to comfort the young woman, who is much older at 25, he goes home with her. There Anja tells that she was in love with an older man she wanted to marry and who let her sit because she was going to have a child. At his request, she had the child aborted and while still in the hospital she received a note from him that they had a good time, but that it was over with her and that she did not need to look for him. Today she saw him again on the tram and he told her that he is now married to a teacher. That is why she has to cry incessantly. Sergei manages to comfort her with words and at the end takes a picture of the ex-boyfriend from the wall and smashes it. Despite all attempts to persuade him to stay the night, Sergei says goodbye and goes back into the dark night. But Anja starts to believe in herself again.

A young man from Moscow is visited by a young lady from the far north, where they both met. They want to spend a few nice days (and nights) together, but they are staying with relatives of the man who are always present and they cannot go to his parents, where he still lives. That's why they're standing on the platform now, because she wants to go home again, although she loves him, but he can convince her to stay. So they both take a taxi and drive from the city's hotels, which are all fully booked. In search of a quiet place, they sit on a bench in a park in the already dark, where they are driven away by two police officers. They cannot stay on the steps of a house entrance either because a woman sends them away from there. Now they take a taxi to a forest outside the city, which is not the right place for a night of love either, which is why they drive back to the city. So she can still take the early train back north. Both are very sad, but promise to write again when they say goodbye.

Mirtscha drove to his parents' farm that night with his horse and cart laden with hay. Suddenly the girl Nuza is standing in the middle of the path and offers to share the white bread that she has with her in the bag with him. With a great deal of effort, he manages to get her onto the heavily laden wagon, where after a short time they embrace and make love until dawn. Then they eat the bread together and create a hole in the hay where Nuza can hide when they drive through the village. When the girl wants to stay in front of her parents 'house, her father steps outside the door at that moment, so that they have to continue to Mirtscha's parents' house. Here his father gets on the wagon to unload the hay and discovers Nuza. Then he gets down again, irritated and his son tells him that this is his daughter-in-law. Then he throws Nuza, which now proudly stands upright in her torn dress at night on the hay, a fork high so she can throw it off. The whole village is watching and it won't be long before the wedding.

Production and publication

Inessa Tumanjan , who was also the reporter at the same time, directed the documentary parts , while Arkadi Kolzaty operated the camera .

The black and white film was Mikhail Kalik's last feature film before emigrating from the Soviet Union , had its world premiere there in 1969 and reached over 1.1 million viewers. The work was censored at the time and re-released in 1992 in a version reconstructed by Kalik himself.

In January 2019 the film was shown in the Berlin Arsenal cinema under the title Ljubit… Lieben… in the original version with German subtitles. No other previous performances in Germany must be proven.

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