Three Poplars in Plyushchikha

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha (Russian: Три тополя на Плющихе) is a 1968 romantic drama feature film directed by Tatyana Lioznova based on the story by Alexander Borschagovsky "Three Poplars in Shabolovka". The film was a box-office success, it was seen by 26 million people in the USSR.

Plot
From a village to Moscow comes a married woman and mother of two children Nyura to sell home-made ham. And the first person she meets is an intelligent taxi driver Sasha, who must pick her up to her in-law; her husband's sister, who lives near the cafe "Three Poplars" at Plyushchikha. This random meeting brings the strangers together and forces them to take a fresh look at their lives. But unfortunately, due to external circumstances continuation of this connection does not develop.

A married woman and the mother of two children of Nyur come to Moscow from the village to sell home-made ham. And the first person she meets is an unexpectedly intelligent taxi driver who must drive her to her sister-in-law, her husband’s sister, who lives near the Three Poplars cafe on Plyushchikha. This accidental and very significant meeting for both brings together previously unfamiliar people and makes them take a fresh look at their lives, but the continuation of this acquaintance does not happen.

In the film, the heroine of Tatyana Doronina sings Alexandra Pakhmutova’s song “Tenderness,” which was very popular in those years. In the finale of the film, this song, which has become its main musical theme, sounds on the radio performed by Maya Kristalinskaya.

Cast

 * Tatiana Doronina - Nyura
 * Oleg Yefremov - Sasha, taxi driver
 * Hikmat Latypov - grandfather Sadyk
 * Vyacheslav Shalevich - Grisha, Nyura's husband
 * Valentina Telegina - Fedosiya Ivanovna
 * Nikolay Smirnov - uncle Egor
 * Rumyantsev Alevtina - Nina, Nyura's daughter-in-law
 * Victor Sergachov - Nina's fiancé
 * George Svetlani - shepherd
 * Galya Belykh - Galia, daughter Nyura (credited as Valya Belykh)
 * Sergei Morozov - Sergei, Nyura's
 * Eugene Poplavskaja - girl in a taxi
 * Yakov Lenz - old man in the queue