The Cold Summer of 1953
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.
Cast: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoli Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova, Zoya Buryak, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Viktor Kosykh, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Kashpur, Elizaveta Solodova, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksei Kolesnik, Andrey Dudarenko
Crew: Aleksandr Proshkin (Director), Edgar Dubrovsky (Writer), Valeri Filippov (Art Direction), Vladimir Martynov (Original Music Composer), Boris Brozhovsky (Director of Photography)