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.

Cast

Vasiliy Shukshin

Yegor Proskudin

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Lyuba Baikalova

Ivan Ryzhov

Fyodor Baikalov

Aleksey Vanin

Pyotr Baikalov

Mariya Vinogradova

Zoya Baikalova

Lev Durov

Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter

Georgi Burkov

Guba

Mariya Skvortsova

Lyuba's mother

Efimiya Bystrova

Kudelikha, Yegor's mother

Tatyana Gavrilova

Luciene