The Red Snowball Tree
A tender redemption story set in a Russian village where a former thief seeks to rebuild his life through love and community, threatened by the violent intrusion of his criminal past.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba
Vasiliy Shukshin
Egor Proskudin
Ivan Ryzhov
Lyuba's father
Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother
Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr
Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya
Efimiya Bystrova
Egor's mother
Zhanna Prokhorenko
investigator
Lev Durov
waiter
Aleksandr Gorbenko
Kolya
Nikolay Grabbe
prison warden
Nikolay Pogodin
sovkhoz director
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