The Cold Summer of 1953
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.
- Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
- Studio: Mosfilm
- Keyword: summer, gulag, 1950s
- Cast: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoli Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova, Zoya Buryak, Yuriy Kuznetsov