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
as Yegor Proskudin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Lyuba Baikalova
Ivan Ryzhov
as Fyodor Baikalov
Aleksey Vanin
as Pyotr Baikalov
Mariya Vinogradova
as Zoya Baikalova
Lev Durov
as Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter
Georgi Burkov
as Guba
Mariya Skvortsova
as Lyuba's mother
Efimiya Bystrova
as Kudelikha, Yegor's mother
Tatyana Gavrilova
as Luciene
