An image from The Red Snowball Tree, one of the productions that also features Vasiliy Shukshin.
Vasiliy Shukshin
July 25, 1929 — Srostki, Biysky District, the Siberian Territory, the RSFSR, the USSR
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.