The Cold Summer of 1953

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin

With Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova and Zoya Buryak

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.