The Red Snowball Tree (1974)

Overview

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

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Directed by

Vasiliy Shukshin

Cast

• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Lyuba
• Vasiliy Shukshin as Egor Prokudin
• Ivan Ryzhov as Lyuba's father
• Mariya Skvortsova as Lyuba's mother
• Aleksey Vanin as Pyotr
• Mariya Vinogradova as Zoya
• Efimiya Bystrova as Egor's mother
• Zhanna Prokhorenko as investigator
• Lev Durov as waiter
• Aleksandr Gorbenko as Kolya
• Nikolay Grabbe as prison warden
• Nikolay Pogodin as sovkhoz director

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