The Cold Summer of 1953
Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего
Release: 1988-12-03
·Runtime: 101m
·★ 7.1
Action
Crime
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Andrey Dudarenko
as Mikhalych
Boris Plotnikov
as Nikolai Starobogatov's son
Tatyana Lebedkova
Sergey Vlasov
as Витек
Valeriy Priyomykhov
as «Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain
Nina Usatova
as Lydia Matveevna
Yuriy Kuznetsov
as Ivan Zotov, director of trading post
Vladimir Kashpur
as Fadeich, chief of landing place
Aleksandr Zavyalov
as Mukha
Anatoliy Papanov
as «Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer
Elizaveta Solodova
as Starobogatov's Wife
Aleksei Kolesnik
as Kryuk
Viktor Stepanov
as policeman Mankov
Zoya Buryak
as Lydia Matveevna's daughter
Viktor Kosykh
as «Baklan», criminal
Vladimir Golovin
as Baron
