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The Cold Summer of 1953

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Release Date: December 3, 1988
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Duration: 1h 41m
Rating: 7.2/10
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
Cast: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova, Zoya Buryak

Storyline

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.