The Red Snowball Tree

  • Vasily Schukschin: Yegor Prokudin
  • Lidija Fedossejewa - Schukschina: Ljuba Baikalowa
  • Marija Skworzowa: Liuba's mother
  • Ivan Ryschow: Liuba's father
  • Alexei Wanin: Pyotr, Liuba's brother
  • Maria Vinogradova: soy, Piotr's wife
  • Olga Bystrova: Yegor mother
  • Zhanna Prokhorenko: Adjudicator
  • Lev Durov: waiter
  • Anatoli Gorbenko: Kolja
  • Nikolai Grabbe: prison guard
  • Nikolai Pogodin: Boss
  • Georgi Burkow: Gangster
  • Oleg Kortschikow: Shura
  • Tatiana Gavrilova: thief Lusjen
  • Iya Arepina: Yegor sister

Kalina Krasnaya - Red elderberry is a Soviet film directed by Vasily Schukschin from 1974 It is based on the eponymous story by the director, who also took over the male lead in the film..

Action

After five years in prison, the thief Yegor Prokudin called " unlucky head," released from prison. During the period of detention, he has written with Ljuba Baikalowa letters; both have never seen and Ljuba believed that Yegor was imprisoned only because of a misunderstanding. She invites him to his house the village. Yegor goes first to his criminal friends, but he gets there in a raid and can just escape so. He now travels to Ljuba to the country.

In the village is soon known that Ljuba has introduced a criminal in the community. Mistrust expected Yegor and pages of Liuba's parents fear. Also Ljuba recognizes that Yegor is not the poetic man, whom she met in his letters. She gives him a week to socialize in the village. Then he can return to his old life. Yegor however, to integrate into village life succeed. He is first chauffeur and later a tractor. He has saved money by investing in the city and Ljuba know that they will keep him because he feel sorry for her.

As a former sidekick will appear in the village to bring Yegor instructions from the previous boss, Yegor chases him off. He wants to break all ties with his former life and settle down in the village. When he plowed one day with the tractor in the fields, the entire transition from earlier appears. Yegor facing them and is shot by one of the criminals. He dies in Liuba's arms. For them, only the letters remain as a consolation, the Yegor has written to her from prison.

Production

Kalina Krasnaya - Red Elderberry has been turned with in Vologda and Belozersk. In a final scene of the film, the Church of Krochino can be seen. The movie was released on 25 March 1974 in the Soviet Union and was seen in the same year as part of the days of the Soviet film in a personal retrospective of the director Schukschin in the GDR. He was officially launched on 26 September 1975 under the title Red Elderberry in the GDR cinemas. On August 8, 1976, he ran for the first time on television in the GDR. Icestorm released the film on DVD in 2008.

Synchronization

The dialogue of the DEFA synchronization wrote Harald Thiemann, the government took over Margot game bird.

Criticism

For Renate Holland-Moritz was Kalina Krasnaya - Red Elderberry " a theater event." They found that the scenes of the first encounter between Ljuba and Yegor Yegor and the meeting with Liuba's parents ' moving to [ include ] that was ever created in a contemporary film. Before our eyes is revealed, without a hint of pathos and sentiment, the whole gamut of human emotions. Kindness, understanding, willingness, fear, prejudice, timidity "

The filmdienst called the film " a plea against exclusion and reintegration of offenders. The fresh way to stand up for humanity, gave writer and director Schukschin international recognition. "

Cinema summarized: " In the USSR once a hit, angegraut today."

Award

Kalina Krasnaya - Red Elderberry ran at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1975 to compete for the FIPRESCI Award, the International Film Prize and the OCIC Award.

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