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The Cold Summer of 1953

71% | Dec 03, 1988 | 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.

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Aleksandr Proshkin
Director
Edgar Dubrovsky
Writer

Cast

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Valeriy Priyomykhov
«Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain
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Anatoli Papanov
«Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer
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Viktor Stepanov
policeman Mankov
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Nina Usatova
Lydia Matveevna
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Zoya Buryak
Lydia Matveevna's daughter

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