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.
Vasiliy Shukshin
Yegor Proskudin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba Baikalova
Ivan Ryzhov
Fyodor Baikalov
Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr Baikalov
Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya Baikalova
Lev Durov
Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter
Georgi Burkov
Guba
Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother
Efimiya Bystrova
Kudelikha, Yegor's mother
Tatyana Gavrilova
Luciene
Nikolay Grabbe
Prison Warden
Aleksandr Gorbenko
Kolya
Natalya Gvozdikova
Telephone Operator
Oleg Korchikov
Shura
Nikolay Pogodin
Sovkhoz Director
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Lidiya Gameltova
Tatyana Ukharova
Lyuba's friend
Vladimir Laptev
Kolya's mate
Iya Arepina
Yegor's sister
Artur Makarov
Buldya
Aleksandr Konyashin
Meeting Leader
Aleksandr Sarantsev
Sasha
Vadim Kondratev
Kolya's mate
Yevgeniy Zharov
Emcee in Prison Choir