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The Red Snowball Tree

1974·108 min

The Red Snowball Tree

Directed by Vasiliy Shukshin

Drama

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.

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Vasiliy Shukshin

Yegor Proskudin

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Lyuba Baikalova

Fyodor Baikalov

Pyotr Baikalov

Crew

Anatoliy Zabolotskiy

Director of Photography

Vasiliy Shukshin

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Mariya Vinogradova

Zoya Baikalova

Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter

Guba

Mariya Skvortsova

Lyuba's mother

Efimiya Bystrova

Kudelikha, Yegor's mother

Tatyana Gavrilova

Luciene

Prison Warden

Aleksandr Gorbenko

Kolya

Natalya Gvozdikova

Telephone Operator

Shura

Nikolay Pogodin

Sovkhoz Director

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Lidiya Gameltova

Tatyana Ukharova

Lyuba's friend

Vladimir Laptev

Kolya's mate

Yegor's sister

Buldya

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What is The Red Snowball Tree about?

The Red Snowball Tree (1974) is about 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.

Who directed The Red Snowball Tree?

Vasiliy Shukshin directed The Red Snowball Tree (1974).

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