The Cold Summer of 1953(1988)

Name: The Cold Summer of 1953
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
Released: 1988-12-03
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova, Zoya Buryak

12/03/1988 (US)Action, Crime, Drama1h 41m

7.1

Overview

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.

Aleksandr Proshkin

Director

Edgar Dubrovsky

Writer