The Red Snowball Tree

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.

• Vasiliy ShukshinDirector
• Vasiliy ShukshinScreenplay
• Pavel ChekalovOriginal Music Composer

• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-ShukshinaLyuba
• Vasiliy ShukshinEgor Proskudin
• 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