The Cold Summer of 1953
(1988)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 50 votes
Year: 1988
Runtime: 97 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Александр Прошкин
Cast: Валерий Приёмыхов, Анатолий Папанов, Виктор Степанов, Нина Усатова, Зоя Буряк, Юрий Кузнецов, Владимир Кашпур, Сергей Власов, Владимир Головин, Андрей Дударенко
Plot
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.