The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego
101 min
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.
- Release date
- July 16, 1988
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Vladimir Martynov
Where to watch
Free
Darkroom
Cast
- Valeriy Priyomykhov as Sergey Basargin, 'Luzga'
- Anatoliy Papanov as Nikolay Starobogatov, 'Kopalych'
- Viktor Stepanov as Mankov
- Nina Usatova as Lida Matveyevna - maty Shury
- Zoya Buryak as Shura
- Vladimir Kashpur as Fadeyich
- Sergey Vlasov as Vitek - bandit
- Vladimir Golovin as 'Baron'
- Andrey Dudarenko as Mikhalych - bandit
- Aleksei Kolesnik as «Kryuk»
- Viktor Kosykh as «Shurup»
- Boris Plotnikov as Starobogatov's son
- Elizaveta Solodova as Starobogatov's wife
- Tatyana Lebedkova
- Yuriy Kuznetsov as Ivan Zotov
Crew
- Aleksandr Proshkin · Director
- Edgar Dubrovsky · Writer
- Vladimir Martynov · Composer
- Boris Brozhovsky · Cinematographer
- Yelena Mikhaylova · Editor
- Valeri Filippov · Production designer