Moscow, My Love

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;
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.

Yuriko finds happiness when she falls in love with a Muscovite sculptor Volodya 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 terrible legacy of the war Yuriko dies in Volodya's arms in a hospital in the city of Moscow.

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 Zaytseva - nurse
Lyubov Sokolova - costume designer
Aleksandr Abdulov - groom

References

^ "Komaki Kurihara". kotobank. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ "Энциклопедия кино — МОСКВА, ЛЮБОВЬ МОЯ". dic.academic.ru.
^ "Москва, любовь моя". Russia-K.

External links

Moscow, My Love at IMDb

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[1] "Komaki Kurihara". kotobank. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

[2] "Энциклопедия кино — МОСКВА, ЛЮБОВЬ МОЯ". dic.academic.ru.

[3] "Москва, любовь моя". Russia-K.

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