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.

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  Vasiliy Shukshin

  Yegor Proskudin
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  Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

  Lyuba Baikalova
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  Ivan Ryzhov

  Fyodor Baikalov
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  Aleksey Vanin

  Pyotr Baikalov
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  Mariya Vinogradova

  Zoya Baikalova
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  Lev Durov

  Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter
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  Georgi Burkov

  Guba
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  Mariya Skvortsova

  Lyuba's mother
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  Efimiya Bystrova

  Kudelikha, Yegor's mother
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  Nikolay Grabbe

  Prison Warden