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

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Lyuba

Vasiliy Shukshin

Egor Proskudin

Ivan Ryzhov

Lyuba's father

Mariya Skvortsova

Lyuba's mother