Drama
The Red Snowball Tree
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.
Directed by Vasiliy Shukshin, German Krylov
71
User score
65 votes
Status
Released
Released
March 25, 1974
Language
Russian
Top cast
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba
Vasiliy Shukshin
Egor Proskudin
Ivan Ryzhov
Lyuba's father
Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother
Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr
Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya
Efimiya Bystrova
Egor's mother
Zhanna Prokhorenko
investigator
Lev Durov
waiter
Aleksandr Gorbenko
Kolya
Nikolay Grabbe
prison warden
Nikolay Pogodin
sovkhoz director
Georgi Burkov
Guba
Tatyana Gavrilova
Luciene
Artur Makarov
Buldya
Oleg Korchikov
Shura
Natalya Gvozdikova
Tatyana Ukharova
Elena Maksimova
Iya Arepina
