The Cold Summer of 1953

Original title: Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего

101 minutes • 1988 • 7.1 Score

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.

Aleksandr Proshkin

Director