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.

• Director: Vasiliy Shukshin
• Cast: Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Vasiliy Shukshin, Ivan Ryzhov, Mariya Skvortsova, Aleksey Vanin, Mariya Vinogradova, Efimiya Bystrova, Zhanna Prokhorenko