The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Original title: Калина красная
The Red Snowball Tree is a 1974 Russian-language drama movie directed by Vasiliy Shukshin. It stars Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Vasiliy Shukshin and Ivan Ryzhov.
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 as Lyuba
- Vasiliy Shukshin as Egor Proskudin
- Ivan Ryzhov as Lyuba's father
- Mariya Skvortsova as Lyuba's mother
- Aleksey Vanin as Pyotr
- Mariya Vinogradova as Zoya
- Efimiya Bystrova as Egor's mother
- Zhanna Prokhorenko as investigator
- Lev Durov as waiter
- Aleksandr Gorbenko as Kolya
- Nikolay Grabbe as prison warden
- Nikolay Pogodin as sovkhoz director