Moscow, My Love

Moscow, My Love
Directed by	Aleksandr Mitta Kenji Yoshida
Written by	Tasiuki Kasikura Aleksandr Mitta Edvard Radzinsky
Starring	Komaki Kurihara Oleg Vidov Makoto Satō Ivan Dykhovichny Valentin Gaft Oleg Yefremov
Cinematography	Vladimir Nakhabtsev
Edited by	N. Veselovskaya
Music by	Boris Chaikovsky
Production companies	Mosfilm Toho
Release date	1974 (1974)
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union, Japan
Languages	Russian, Japanese

Moscow, My Love (Russian: Москва, любовь моя, romanized: Moskva, lyubov moya, Japanese: モスクワわが愛) is a 1974 Soviet-Japanese romantic drama directed by Aleksandr Mitta and Kenji Yoshida.^[1][2][3] The film tells the story of Yuriko, a girl from Hiroshima who comes to Moscow to study ballet. The film's title is a reference to the Alain Resnais film Hiroshima My Love.

Plot[]

Yuriko Ono is a young promising dancer in Japan. Yuriko's opportunity to become a professional dancer comes when she is invited to Moscow to study ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Yukiko finds happiness when she falls in love with a Muscovite sculptor and wins the competition of the Bolshoi Theatre graduates. But her happiness is short; a diagnosis of blood cancer abruptly impedes her path of dedication to art and seems to plunge her life into a storm ...

The unfortunate girl was born in the capital city of Hiroshima - which suffered one of the two atomic bombs from the US Army in 1945. After days of struggling with the legacy of the terrible consequence of the battle, Yukiko's last breath is in a hospital in the city of Moscow, far from home and loved ones, she dies in the arms of a teary-eyed Russian boy - in whom she entrusted her heart.

Cast[]

• Komaki Kurihara - Yuriko
• Oleg Vidov - Volodya
• Valentin Gaft - choreographer
• Tatyana Golikova - Tanya
• Elena Dobronravova - Elena Nikolaevna
• Ivan Dykhovichny - tutor
• Oleg Yefremov - doctor
• Alex Varlamov - ballet teacher
• Makoto Satō - Yuriko's uncle
• Lyudmila Zajtseva - nurse
• Lyubov Sokolova - costume designer
• Aleksandr Abdulov - groom

References[]

External links[]

• Moscow, My Love at IMDb

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