The Cold Summer of 1953

Action, Crime, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Aleksandr Proshkin

Status Released

Release Date 1988-01-06

Storyline

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.