

The Cold Summer of 1953
1 hour 41 minutes1988-12-03
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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.
Cast

Valeriy Priyomykhov
«Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain

Anatoliy Papanov
«Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer

Viktor Stepanov
policeman Mankov

Nina Usatova
Lydia Matveevna

Zoya Buryak
Lydia Matveevna's daughter

Yuriy Kuznetsov
Ivan Zotov, director of trading post

Viktor Kosykh
«Baklan», criminal

Boris Plotnikov
Nikolai Starobogatov's son

Vladimir Kashpur
Fadeich, chief of landing place

Elizaveta Solodova
Starobogatov's Wife

Vladimir Golovin
Baron

Aleksei Kolesnik
Kryuk

Andrey Dudarenko
Mikhalych

Aleksandr Zavyalov
Mukha

Tatyana Lebedkova

D. Karpova

K. Labutin

S. Martanov

V. Nazarov
