Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego 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.

Cast:

Valeriy Priyomykhov
«Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain 

Anatoli Papanov
«Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer 

Viktor Stepanov
policeman Mankov 

Nina Usatova
Lydia Matveevna 

Zoya Buryak
Lydia Matveevna's daughter 

Yuriy Kuznetsov
Ivan Zotov, director of trading post 

• The Cold Summer of 1953
• Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего...