The Cold Summer of 1953

The Cold Summer of 1953

1988 · ★ 7.3 · Action, Crime, Drama

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin · Written by Edgar Dubrovsky

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