
108 minutes
3/25/1974
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.

Vasiliy Shukshin
as Yegor Proskudin

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Lyuba Baikalova

Ivan Ryzhov
as Fyodor Baikalov

Aleksey Vanin
as Pyotr Baikalov

Mariya Vinogradova
as Zoya Baikalova

Lev Durov
as Sergei Mikhailovich, waiter

Georgi Burkov
as Guba

Mariya Skvortsova
as Lyuba's mother

Efimiya Bystrova
as Kudelikha, Yegor's mother

Tatyana Gavrilova
as Luciene

Nikolay Grabbe
as Prison Warden

Aleksandr Gorbenko
as Kolya

Natalya Gvozdikova
as Telephone Operator

Oleg Korchikov
as Shura

Nikolay Pogodin
as Sovkhoz Director

Zhanna Prokhorenko
as Lidiya Gameltova

Tatyana Ukharova
as Lyuba's friend

Vladimir Laptev
as Kolya's mate

Iya Arepina
as Yegor's sister

Artur Makarov
as Buldya

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