Alyosha's Love
# Alyosha's Love

Alyosha's Love (Russian: Алёшкина любовь, romanized: Alyoshkina lyubov) is a 1960 Soviet comedy film directed by Georgi Shchukin and Semyon Tumanov.

## Plot

A modest guy, a drilling geologist, loves the beautiful and provocative switchman Zina. The faithful and boundless love of Alyosha gradually awakens her reciprocal feeling, which makes others look with different eyes at the inconspicuous guy.

## Cast

* Leonid Bykov as Alyosha
* Aleksandra Zavyalova as Zina
* Alexey Gribov as Zina's grandfather
* Yuri Belov as Arkady
* Ivan Savkin as Nikolai
* Vladimir Gulyaev as Sergey
* Ivan Ryzhov as Volkov
* Igor Okhlupin as Zina's boyfriend
* Pyotr Sobolevsky as Belogorov

## Production

Leonid Kuravlyov, Anatoly Kuznetsov and Leonid Kharitonov auditioned for the role of Alyoshka. Iya Arepina, Lyudmila Gurchenko and Izolda Izvitskaya auditioned for the role of Zina.

