Where Has Love Gone?
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| Where Has Love Gone? | |
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| Produced by | [[]] |
| Written by | [[]], [[]] |
| Starring | Sofia Rotaru Valeriu Gagiu |
| Music by | Raimonds Pauls, Yury Saulsky |
| Distributed by | Moldova-Film |
| Release date(s) |  1 January 1980 1 January 1980 |
| Running time | 79 min. |
| Country | USSR, Moldova |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $,000,000 (Worldwide) |
| IMDb profile | |
Where Has Love Gone? (Russian: Где ты, любовь?/Gde ty lubovi) is a 1980 Soviet musical drama film written and directed by Valeriu Gagiu starring Sofia Rotaru as well as Valeriu Gagiu and Evgueny Menishov. The movie features songs performed by Sofia Rotaru, sequence of substantial dialogues. The seting includes Moldavian landscape and countryside life as well as Black Sea coast, Chisinau and Odessa.
Although heavily criticized by cinema experts, as by Sofia Rotaru herself, the film gathered more than 25 million viewers in the former Soviet Union. In 2002, the official video version of the movie directed by Valeriu Gagiu at studios Moldova-Film in 1980 was released by the ARENA Corporation.
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[edit] Plot
After graduation form conservatory, music professor Marcela (Sofia Rotaru) teaches music in a village music school in Moldova. As s main solo vocal she is invited to join a musical vocal instrumental ensemble, which is being directed by astronomer Viktor. The first rehearsal takes place in the astronomic star observatory tower and that's where Viktor falls in love with Marcela. Andrei also has his idea about Marcela as he cheerly appreciates her first perfomance with their band. Marcela returns back home to the village, where he local admiror waits for her next to her house door. The rehearsals lead to an invitation to perform on a cruise ship in the Black Sea. As relationship with Viktor staggers, Andrei manages to approach Marcela. Love, artistic successes, and, as the genre requires, a victory at an international song festival are awaiting Marcela.
[edit] Cast
- Sofia Rotaru as Marcela Bazatin
- Grigore Grigoriu - Viktor
- Evgueny Menishov - Andrei
- Ekaterine Kazimirova
- Konstantin Konstantinov
- Viktor Ignat
- Viktor Chutak
[edit] Production
The shooting of the movie started in Kishinev. The all-Soviet star Sofia Rotaru was selectd to play the main role. In fact, in the half-documentary, half-autobiographical film, Rotaru played her real self, even though the last name of the heroine (Botezat) was not the same as the main role artist.
From the neginning the movie was planedto be a musical film, that is why the most popular Soviet singer - Sofia Rotaru - was invited.
The producer Valeriu Gagiu said:
| “ | Truy speaking, the film "Where Has Love Gone?" was a groud breaking type film for me. In fact, I was going tp shoot a musical film called "The Year of Vocation", where Sofia Rotaru had to play as well. However, the "Goskino" decided otherwise. I can still remember as I was told: "Make a movie about Rotaru, ptherwise we will not let your film go through". This being said, I should mention that the preparations fr the shooting of "The Year of Vocation" have already started, whereas we did not even have ascenarion for the movie about Rotaru![1] | ” |
A a result, the scenario was written in a way that it satisfied the conductorship as well. This was supposed to be the first full fledged drama movie about Sofia Rotaru. The singer has agreed to play the role as she was on tour in Odessa. The shooting of h film started with an ensemble of actors, which represented the real cinema stars, even though the movie wasa musical film: Grigore Grigoriu, Evgueny Menishov (presenter of the yearly song festival "Songof the Year" with Angelina Vovk), Viktor Chyutak casted. Because of the movie, Rotaru had to refuse to tour, what did not fit in with the plans of the directio of Chervona Ruta ensemble, where SofiaRotaru was the leading soloist singer. The shooting of the movie took place in Moldova, Crimea, and Odessa.[2]
One of the film episodes was shot in the museum-tower of the State University of Moldova. According to the producer cagiu, he always dreamed of shooting something in the tower and he had specially planned a scene in it. Vaeriu Gagiu said:
| “ | Indeed, the main male hero was astronomer by his profession. That is why we have used for the shootings the observatory in the tower. As far as the truthfulness or imagination of the plot... Many things did in fact fit in together, both in the life of the main female heroine and in the real life of Sofia Rotaru: village country girl, teacher, soloist of the band.[1] | ” |
According to the participants of the shootings, Sofia Rotaru experienced stress in front of the cameras and producer had to work thouroughly and long with the singer, according to Gagiu, it would eventually lead to quarels.
At that time, Sofia Rotaru was known throughout the whole Soviet Union, but was shy of her fame and stressed when she was stoppe don the streets for an autograph, often she would lock herslef in the hotel room. However, all the sacrifices proved to be efficient, as the film enjoyed a major success. Right after the release of "Where Has Love Gone?", Sofia Rotaru was proposed a new leading role in the next drama film Soul.
One of the most popular hits of Sofia Rotaru - the song "Red Arrow" (music: Aleksey Mazhukov, lyrics: Nikolay Zinoviev), was written and composed specially for the film "Where Has Love Gone?".
[edit] Soundtrack
Popular schlagers of 70-80's are performed in the film, created by Ion Aldi, Aleksandr Zatsepin, Alexei Mazhukov, Raimonds Pauls, Yury Saulsky.
Most of the songs were released in the album of Sofia Rotaru - Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?"
- List of songs performed by Sofia Rotaru:
- Where Has Love Gone? (song)
| N°[3] | Song | Performed by | Authors | Commentaries |
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| 1 | Come Moldovan: Să Vii |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Dumitru Matcovschi Music: Ion-Aldea Teodorovici |
first performed in the movie Where has Love Gone?, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 2 | First Rain Russian: Первый дождь/Pervyyi dozhdi |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Leonid Zavalnyuk Music: Aleksander Zatsepin |
first performed in the movie Soul, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 3 | Mother's Heart Moldovan: Inimă de Mamă Russian: Осенняя песня/Osennyaya pesnya |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Dumitru Matcovschi Music: Ion-Aldea Teodorovici |
first performed in the movie Where has Love Gone?, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 4 | Dance on the Drum Russian: Танец на барабане/Tanets na barabane |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Andrey Voznesensky Music: Raimonds Pauls |
first performed in the movie Soul, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 5 | Ioane (English: "Hey, John!") Moldovan: Ioane Russian: Иванушка/Ivanushka |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Dumitru Matcovschi Music: Petru Teodorovici |
first performed in the movie Where has Love Gone?, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 6 | Do Not Forget Russian: Не забывай/Ne zabyvay |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Leonid Zavalnyuk Music: Yury Saulsky |
first performed in the movie Soul, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
| 7 | Where Has Love Gone?[4] Russian: Где ты любовь/Gde ty lyuboi |
Sofia Rotaru | Lyrics: Ilya Reznik Music: Raimonds Pauls |
first performed in the movie Soul, released in the album Songs from the movie "Where Has Love Gone?" |
[edit] Gallery
 Marcela Bazatin relaxing by the swimming-pool before the international song contest in France |
 During the performance of the song "Where Has Love Gone?" in France |
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[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b Twenty five years ago shootings of the movie "Where has Love Gone?" started in Kishinev, where Sofia Rotaru played the main role. Komsomolskaya Pravda v Moldove (2004-10-26). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
- ^ Rejection by her own band became part of the plot of the next drama movie with Sofia Rotaru in the main role Soul.
- ^ Chronological order
- ^ Where Has Love Gone? (song) at YouTube
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