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The Cold Summer of 1953

Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего

1988 · Action, Crime, Drama · Soviet Union

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.

Directed by
Aleksandr Proshkin
Written by
Edgar Dubrovsky
Starring
Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova
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