该电影由列夫·库里让诺夫执导，Inna Gulaya、尤里·尼库林、列昂尼德·库拉夫廖夫、Yekaterina Mazurova等主演，于1961年上映。在91分钟的叙事中，《当年树梢高高挂的时候》（又名：當年樹梢高高掛的時候）World War II veteran Kuzma Kuzmich Iordanov has become a heavy drinker with no interest in finding employment of any kind. He joins a collective farm, claiming to be the father of Natasha, a resident there, and is forced to analyze his life when he finds himself falling in love.