Love For Love

Love For Love (Russian: Любовью за любовь) - a musical feature film based on the play by W. Shakespeare “Much Ado About Nothing” to the music of Tikhon Khrennikov. The main musical themes for the film were music from the composer's ballet of the same name, created in 1976 for the ballet of the Bolshoi Theater.

Plot
Count Leonato, Governor of Messina, solemnly receives Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon. Hero, daughter of Leonato, and Claudio, the close associate of the Prince of Aragon, are about to get married - the prince himself intercedes with Hero for his friend.

With the retinue of the prince, a young Paduanian Benedict arrives, a constant object of jokes for Beatrice, niece of Leonato. Both Benedict and Beatrice solemnly declare that they will never marry. Gero and Claudio bet with Don Pedro that they will arrange the wedding of Benedict and Beatrice. At this time, Don Juan, the twin brother of the prince, out of envy wants to upset the wedding of Claudio. He accuses Hero of infidelity.

On the wedding day, Claudio rejects the bride. The hero is declared dead. The intrigues of Don Juan exposed. Claudio will survive belated remorse. Leonato puts before Claudio a condition: to marry his cousin, without asking who she is and not seeing her face. Claudio agrees, the bride opens her veil - in front of him is the resurrected Hero.

Two weddings are celebrated in the finale: Claudio and Gero and Benedict and Beatrice.

Cast

 * Sergey Martynov - Don Pedro, Prince
 * Aristarchus of Livanov - Don Juan, his brother
 * George Georgiou - Leonato, father of Hero
 * Larisa Udovichenko - Beatrice
 * Anna Isaykina - Hero
 * Algis Arlauskas - Claudio
 * Leonid Yarmolnik - Benedict
 * Evgeny Nesterenko - singer
 * Alla Pugacheva - singer
 * Fedor Chekhankov - Borochio
 * Andrey Dubovsky - Conrad
 * Gennady Yalovich - Dogwood
 * Boris Gitin - Mace
 * Valentin Kulik - Balthazar
 * Natalia Gurzo - Margarita, the maid
 * Olga Sirina - Ursula
 * Vladimir Privalov - father Francis
 * Andrey Loiko - Anthony
 * Nikolai Fedorov is a jester
 * Luciana De Marques - Senor Lucia
 * Svetlana Chachava
 * ballet dancers of the Moscow Musical Academic Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko