Film
The Cold Summer of 1953
SU- Director
- Aleksandr Proshkin
- Year
- 1988
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.
Top cast
Valeriy Priyomykhov
Sergei «Luzga» Basargin
Anatoliy Papanov
Nikolai «Kopalych» Starobogatov
Viktor Stepanov
Mankov
Nina Usatova
Lidia Matveevna
Zoya Buryak
Lidia Matveevna's daughter
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Ivan Zotov
Vladimir Kashpur
Fadeich
Sergey Vlasov
Vityok
Vladimir Golovin
«Baron»
Andrey Dudarenko
Mikhalych
Aleksandr Zavyalov
«Mukha»
Aleksei Kolesnik
«Kryuk»
Viktor Kosykh
«Shurup»
Boris Plotnikov
Starobogatov's son
Elizaveta Solodova
Starobogatov's wife
Daria Karpova
Konstantin Labutin
Tatyana Lebedkova
Directed by
Aleksandr Proshkin
Written by
Edgar Dubrovsky
