

The Red Snowball Tree
1974 · 107 min · Drama
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.
- Director
- Vasiliy Shukshin
- Writer
- Vasiliy Shukshin
- Released
- March 25, 1974
- Language
- Russian
Cast

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba

Vasiliy Shukshin
Egor Prokudin

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
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