Where Are You, My Love? (1981)

Interesting facts

Where Has Love Gone? is a 1980 Soviet musical drama film, written and directed by Valeriu Gagiu, starring Sofia Rotaru as well as Grigore Grigoriu and Evgueny Menishov. The movie features songs performed by Sofia Rotaru. The setting includes Moldavian landscape and countryside life, as well as the Black Sea coast, Chişinău and Odessa.

Production

The shooting of the movie started in Kishinev. The all-Soviet star Sofia Rotaru was selected 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 beginning the movie was planned to be a musical film; that is why the Soviet singer Sofia Rotaru was invited.

Truly speaking, the film Gde ty, lyubov'? was a ground breaking type film for me. In fact, I was going to shoot another musical film, 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, otherwise we will not let your film go through".

As 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.

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:

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