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The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

Action Drama Crime
Release Date: 1988, January 6
Directors: Aleksandr Proshkin
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Vlasov, Aleksandr Dovbnya, Nina Usatova, Aleksei Kolesnik, Vladimir Golovin, Zoya Buryak, Aleksandr Zavyalov, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Stepanov

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

1950s summer gulag