The Cold Summer of 1953
Top 10 Billed Cast
Sergei «Luzga» Basargin
Nikolai «Kopalych» Starobogatov
Mankov
Lidia Matveevna
Lidia Matveevna's daughter
Ivan Zotov
Fadeich
Vityok
«Baron»
Mikhalych
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1988-01-06
Average
7.3
Rating:
3.6 startsTagline
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