| The Red Snowball Tree | |
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| Directed by | Vasily Shukshin |
| Written by | Vasily Shukshin |
| Starring | Vasily Shukshin Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Georgi Burkov Ivan Ryzhov Maria Skvortsova |
| Cinematography | Anatoli Zabolotsky |
| Music by | Pavel Chekalov |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | 289 000 rubles[1] |
| Box office | 140 million tickets[1] |
The Red Snowball Tree (Russian: Калина красная, romanized: Kalina krasnaya) is a 1974 Soviet drama film written and directed by Vasily Shukshin.[2] It was the most successful film of that year.[3] In total, the film sold an estimated 140 million tickets at the Soviet box office, making it the highest-grossing Soviet film of all time.[1] German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder included The Red Snowball Tree in the top ten of his favorite films.[4]
- ^ a b c Interview with Boris Pavlenok, deputy director of the USSR GosKino
- ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 569–570. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ Анна ВЕЛИГЖАНИНА. "Лидия Федосеева-Шукшина: "Название "Калина красная" придумала я"". Komsomolskaya Pravda.
- ^ Jim’s Reviews — The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder