The Red Snowball Tree
7.5
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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Cast
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Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
McMafia
Vasiliy Shukshin
Egor Prokudin
Known for
They Fought for Their Motherland
The Killers
Ivan Ryzhov
Lyuba's father
Known for
White Bim Black Ear
Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother
Known for
White Bim Black Ear
Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr
Known for
Gentlemen of Fortune
Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya
Known for
Three from Prostokvashino
Hedgehog in the Fog
Efimiya Bystrova
Egor's mother
No other roles listed
Zhanna Prokhorenko
investigator
Known for
Ballad of a Soldier
Lev Durov
waiter
Known for
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Three from Prostokvashino
Aleksandr Gorbenko
Kolya
Also in
Happy-Go-Lucky
Flight with the Astronaut
Nikolay Grabbe
prison warden
Known for
Andrei Rublev
The Secret of the Third Planet
Nikolay Pogodin
sovkhoz director
Known for
The Girls
Vasiliy Shukshin Director · Pavel Chekalov Composer Anatoliy Zabolotskiy Cinematographer
First release March 25, 1974 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Калина красная
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Калина красная
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · March 25, 1974
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
October 3, 2019 · Limited theatrical · Restored Version
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