The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

Original title: Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего
Release date: Dec. 3, 1988
Status: Released
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Runtime: 1h 41min
Producers: Mosfilm

Name: The Cold Summer of 1953
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1988-12-03
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoli Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin.
Starring Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoli Papanov, Viktor Stepanov and Nina Usatova.

7.9

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.