''Waiting for Love'' (russian: Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова, Lyubimaya zhenshchina mekhanika Gavrilova) is a 1981 Soviet

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

Pyotr Todorovsky Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky (russian: Пётр Ефи́мович Тодоро́вский, uk, Петро Юхимович Тодоровський, 26 August 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematograph ...

starring

Ludmila Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko (née Gurchenko; russian: link=no, Людмила Марковна Гурченко; 12 November 1935 – 30 March 2011) was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. She was given the honorary title ...

and

Sergei Shakurov Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov (russian: Сергей Каюмович Шакуров, tt-Cyrl, Сергей Каюм улы Шәкүров, translit=Sergey Qayum ulı Şäkürov; born 1 January 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater. He has ...

. The film is set in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.''

Soviet Screen ''Soviet Screen'' (russian: link=no, Советский Экран, Sovetsky Ekran) was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental c ...

'' 1984 - Page 74 Двадцать четыре часа из жизни женщины (Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова)

Cast

Lyudmila Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko (née Gurchenko; russian: link=no, Людмила Марковна Гурченко; 12 November 1935 – 30 March 2011) was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. She was given the honorary title ...

as Margarita Solovyova, Rita *

Sergey Shakurov Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov (russian: Сергей Каюмович Шакуров, tt-Cyrl, Сергей Каюм улы Шәкүров, translit=Sergey Qayum ulı Şäkürov; born 1 January 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater. He has ...

as Lev Gavrilov, Rita's groom *Svetlana Ponomareva as Tanya, Rita's daughter *Natalya Nazarova as Lusya, hairdresser, Rita's friend *

Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (russian: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the ...

as Rita's uncle *

Stanislav Sokolov Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov (russian: Станислав Михайлович Соколов; born May 18, 1947) is a Russian stop-motion animation director. He graduated from VGIK in 1971 and has since then worked with Studios Soyuzmultfilm, D ...

as Viktor, lawyer, Lusya's husband *

Vsevolod Shilovsky Vsevolod Nikolaevich Shilovsky (russian: Все́волод Никола́евич Шило́вский; born June 3, 1938, Moscow ) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986). He was awarded ...

as Pasha, photographer * Anatoly Vasilyev as Slava, physician for the recruitment commission *

Mikhail Svetin Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (russian: Михаил Семёнович Светин; born Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman; 11 December 1929 – 30 August 2015) was a Soviet, Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. Svetin's room 2 ...

as Vitya, musician, theater worker *Alexander Goloborodko as watcher *

Lyudmila Arinina Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina (russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Ари́нина; born November 8, 1926, Sinodskoye Village, Saratov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named an Honored Artist of the RS ...

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

External links

* 1981 romantic comedy films 1981 films Soviet romantic comedy films Russian romantic comedy films 1980s Russian-language films Films directed by Pyotr Todorovsky Mosfilm films 1980s Soviet films {{1980s-USSR-film-stub