The Cold Summer of 1953
1988In 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.
Acted in
Valeriy Priyomykhov
as «Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain
Anatoliy Papanov
as «Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer
Viktor Stepanov
as policeman Mankov
Nina Usatova
as Lydia Matveevna
Zoya Buryak
as Lydia Matveevna's daughter
Yuriy Kuznetsov
as Ivan Zotov, director of trading post
Viktor Kosykh
as «Baklan», criminal
Boris Plotnikov
as Nikolai Starobogatov's son
Vladimir Kashpur
as Fadeich, chief of landing place
Elizaveta Solodova
as Starobogatov's Wife
Vladimir Golovin
as Baron
Aleksei Kolesnik
as Kryuk
Andrey Dudarenko
as Mikhalych
Aleksandr Zavyalov
as Mukha
Tatyana Lebedkova
D. Karpova
K. Labutin
S. Martanov
V. Nazarov
Sergey Vlasov
as Витек