The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
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.
- Released
- 1974-03-25
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vasiliy Shukshin
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 from 70 votes
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