
Plot
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.
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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