About the film
Yegor Prokudin walks out of prison having promised himself he will never go back. He has been writing to Lyuba, a kind village woman he has never met, and decides to go to her instead of returning to his old gang.
Village life is slow and strange to him, and his past is not ready to let him go. Shukshin, who wrote, directed and starred, makes a film that is funny, tender and finally devastating.
The Red Snowball Tree is considered one of the most important Soviet films of the 1970s and the best work of Shukshin, who died a year after its release.
Did you know?
- It won the main prize at the All-Union Film Festival in 1974.
- Lyuba is played by Shukshin's wife, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina.
- Shukshin died in 1974 while filming They Fought for Their Country.
