The Red Snowball Tree

Kalina krasnaya is a movie starring Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Vasiliy Shukshin, and Ivan Ryzhov. A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past...
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.