Cheryomushki (1963)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Olga Zabotkina	...	Lida (as O.Zabotkina)
	Vladimir Vasilyev	...	Boris (as V. Vasilyev)
	Marina Khotuntseva	...	Masha (as M. Khotuntseva)
	Gennadi Bortnikov	...	Sasha (as G. Bortnikov)
	Svetlana Zhivankova	...	Lyusya (as S. Zhivankova)
	Vladimir Zemlyanikin	...	Sergei (as V. Zemlyanikin)
	Vasili Merkuryev	...	Fedor Drebednev (as V. Merkuryev)
	Marina Polbentseva	...	Vava (as M.Polbentseva)
	Evgeni Leonov	...	Barabashkin (as Ye. Leonov)
	Fyodor Nikitin	...	Baburov (as F. Nikitin)
	Konstantin Sorokin	...	Kurochkin (as K. Sorokin)
	Rina Zelyonaya	...	Kurochkina (as R. Zelyonaya)
	Sergei Filippov	...	Mylkin (as S. Filippov)
	Emma Trejvas	...	Mylkina (as E. Treyvas)
	Mikhail Pugovkin	...	Kovalyov (as M. Pugovkin)

Storyline

The title of the film (literally "Cherry Town") refers to new towns or neighborhoods based on middle-class urban development, where every block of houses looks exactly the same as the next. In the Soviet Union of the late 1950s this was thought to be equivalent to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This musical involves the tribulations of four couples whose lives humorously intersect. It opens with Sergei, a driver, meeting up with his good friend Boris. After lamenting being alone, Boris falls head over heals for a museum guide, Lida. She resists his advances but that doesn't stop Boris. She leads him to her friends, Masha and Sasha, who are planning to get married and are elated to have recently received permission to move into an apartment in the Moscow Cheryomushki. On her way home (with Boris constantly tagging along), Lida discovers along with her father that the roof of their apartment has collapsed and is now uninhabitable... Written by Bob Kosovsky <kos@panix.com>  

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