THE RED SNOWBALL TREE (4K, drama, directed by Vasily Shukshin, 1973)

Kalina Krasnaya is a feature film by Vasily Shukshin based on the story of the same name. It tells the dramatic story of a man with a dark past who attempts to start a new life. Yegor Prokudin, a man of lost destiny, spent many years in prison. A simple, textured, and kind man, he now talks with the sky, with the arable land, and with his beloved birches, wishing for a holiday. After leaving prison, Yegor goes to the village where the blue‑eyed stranger Lyuba Baikalova lives, with whom he had corresponded. But life in the village ruins all his plans, and he decides to break with the past forever. However, Yegor's former criminal friends will not accept his new way of life.