

The Red Snowball Tree
1974-03-25 · 107 min · ★ 7.1
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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- Directors
- Vasiliy Shukshin
- Production companies
- Mosfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-ShukshinaLyuba
Vasiliy ShukshinEgor Prokudin
Ivan RyzhovLyuba's father
Mariya SkvortsovaLyuba's mother
Aleksey VaninPyotr
Mariya VinogradovaZoya
Efimiya BystrovaEgor's mother
Zhanna Prokhorenkoinvestigator
Lev Durovwaiter
Aleksandr GorbenkoKolya
Nikolay Grabbeprison warden
Nikolay Pogodinsovkhoz director
Georgi BurkovGuba
Tatyana GavrilovaLuciene
Oleg KorchikovShura
Natalya Gvozdikova
Tatyana Ukharova
Elena Maksimova
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