The Red Snowball Tree

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The Red Snowball Tree
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Monument Yegor Prokudin, Shukshin dedicated the film The Red Snowball Tree
Directed by Vasily Shukshin
Written by Vasily Shukshin
Starring Vasily Shukshin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Georgi Burkov
Ivan Ryzhov
Maria Skvortsova
Music by Pavel Chekalov
Cinematography Anatoli Zabolotsky
Production
company
Release dates
1974
Running time
101 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Budget 289 000 roubles[1]

The Red Snowball Tree (Russian: Калина красная) is a 1974 Soviet film directed by Vasily Shukshin. It was the most successful film of that year. In total the film was watched by over 140 million people.[2] German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder included The Red Snowball Tree in the top ten of their favorite films.[3]

Plot

Coming out of the colony, a thief-recidivist Yegor Prokudin (Shukshin) named Mount decides to go to the village where he lives, blue-eyed stranger Luba (Fedoseyeva-Shukshina), with whom he corresponded - it is necessary to wait a little bit and look around. But life in the village destroys all plans Yegor, and he decides to break with the past for ever. Now he has friends, work, love a woman. However, criminals - former friends Yegor - are not going to put up with his new way of life.

Cast

Awards

  • Polish Film Critics Award Warsaw siren for best foreign film in 1973, shown in Poland
  • The main prize of the All-Union Film Festival in Baku (1974)
  • The best film of the year by the magazine Soviet Screen

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