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In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

Status: Released
Released Date: 1988-12-03
Runtime: 101 mins
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
Writer: Edgar Dubrovsky
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Original title: The Cold Summer of 1953
Production Companies: Mosfilm
Production Countries: Soviet Union

Valeriy Priyomykhov

Anatoliy Papanov

Viktor Stepanov

Nina Usatova

Zoya Buryak

Yuriy Kuznetsov

Viktor Kosykh

Boris Plotnikov

Vladimir Kashpur

Elizaveta Solodova

Vladimir Golovin

Aleksei Kolesnik

Andrey Dudarenko

Aleksandr Zavyalov