Day 19: Film with Great Emotions
One of mine has to be “Three Poplars in Plyushchikha” or Три тополя на
Плющихе (1968) Director Tatiana Lioznova’s two scenes of love in parting are
some of the most iconic scenes in Soviet cinema/television. I’ve written a lot
about the scene with Stirlitz and his wife, but another perhaps more painfully
beautiful scene comes from this earlier picture of hers featuring Tatiana
Doronina as the rustic country girl who visits the city and befriends her taxi
driver, my all-favourite Oleg Efremov. The two of them are so different but so
at home with each other, recollecting and wondering, thinking and talking about
‘Tenderness,’ the song they didn’t realise they both loved the most. The scene
when Sasha lets so many fares go as he waits downstairs for Nyura - and the
scene near the end when they’re even farther apart - is as much about the
viewers’ emotion as it is the main characters,’ breaking a little, and putting
your heart together with so much tenderness Xo
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