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.
Valeriy Priyomykhovas Sergei «Luzga» Basargin
Viktor Stepanovas Mankov
Vladimir Golovinas «Baron»
Andrey Dudarenkoas Mikhalych
Aleksei Kolesnikas «Kryuk»
Elizaveta Solodovaas Starobogatov's wife
Daria Karpova
Konstantin Labutin
Tatyana Lebedkova
S. Martanov
V. Nazarov
Aleksandr Dovbnyaas (uncredited)















