The Red Snowball Tree

The Red Snowball Tree (1974) is a drama film directed by Vasiliy Shukshin rated 7.1/10.

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.

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