The Red Snowball Tree

Mar 25, 1974

1h 48m

★ 7.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Yegor Proskudin

Vasiliy Shukshin

Lyuba Baikalova

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Fyodor Baikalov

Ivan Ryzhov

Pyotr Baikalov

Aleksey Vanin

Zoya Baikalova

Mariya Vinogradova

Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter

Lev Durov

Guba

Georgi Burkov

Lyuba's mother

Mariya Skvortsova

Kudelikha, Yegor's mother

Efimiya Bystrova

Luciene

Tatyana Gavrilova

Prison Warden

Nikolay Grabbe

Kolya

Aleksandr Gorbenko

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