
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.
Cast

Vasiliy Shukshin
Yegor Proskudin

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lyuba Baikalova

Ivan Ryzhov
Fyodor Baikalov

Aleksey Vanin
Pyotr Baikalov

Mariya Vinogradova
Zoya Baikalova

Lev Durov
Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter

Georgi Burkov
Guba

Mariya Skvortsova
Lyuba's mother

Efimiya Bystrova
Kudelikha, Yegor's mother

Tatyana Gavrilova
Luciene

Nikolay Grabbe
Prison Warden

Aleksandr Gorbenko
Kolya

Natalya Gvozdikova
Telephone Operator

Oleg Korchikov
Shura

Nikolay Pogodin
Sovkhoz Director

Zhanna Prokhorenko
Lidiya Gameltova

Tatyana Ukharova
Lyuba's friend

Vladimir Laptev
Kolya's mate

Iya Arepina
Yegor's sister

Artur Makarov
Buldya

Aleksandr Konyashin
Meeting Leader
Aleksandr Sarantsev
Sasha
Vadim Kondratev
Kolya's mate
Yevgeniy Zharov
Emcee in Prison Choir
Crew

Vasiliy Shukshin
Director, Screenplay, Novel

Vladimir Seleznyov
Co-Director
Irina Sergievskaya
Script Editor
Yelena Mikhaylova
Editor

Anatoliy Zabolotskiy
Director of Photography
German Krylov
Executive Producer
Ippolit Novoderyozhkin
Production Design
Alla Dokuchayeva
Costume Design
I. Baykova
Makeup & Hair
Viktor Belyarov
Sound Engineer

Pavel Chekalov
Music
Ivan Shpiller
Conductor
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