The Red Snowball Tree
| The Red Snowball Tree | |
|---|---|
 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
- Vasili Shukshin
- Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
- Georgi Burkov
- Ivan Ryzhov
- Maria Skvortsova
- Aleksei Vanin
- Maria Vinogradova
- Olga Bystrova
- Lev Durov
- Nikolai Grabbe
- Natalya Krachkovskaya
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
References
External links
- The Red Snowball Tree at the Internet Movie Database
- «За калиной красной» — Журнал «Огонёк», № 10 (5088), 20.07.2009
- The Red Snowball Tree with English subtitles