The Cold Summer of 1953

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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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Action,

Crime,

Drama

Duration:

101 minutes

Year:

1988

Director:

Aleksandr Proshkin

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Company:

Mosfilm

Cast:
Valeriy Priyomykhov

«Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain

Anatoli Papanov

«Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer

Viktor Stepanov

policeman Mankov

Nina Usatova

Lydia Matveevna

Zoya Buryak

Lydia Matveevna's daughter

Crew:
Aleksandr Proshkin

Director

Edgar Dubrovsky

Writer

Valeri Filippov

Art Direction

Vladimir Martynov

Original Music Composer

Boris Brozhovsky

Director of Photography