The Cold Summer of 1953 Poster

The Cold Summer of 1953

Not Rated Action Crime Drama

Starring: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova, Zoya Buryak

Writer: Edgar Dubrovsky

Release Date:
December 3, 1988
Ratings:
7.2 / 10
Director:
Aleksandr Proshkin
Companies:
Mosfilm

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.