The Cold Summer of 1953
Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin
Produced by Mosfilm
A tense historical action-drama about a remote Soviet settlement besieged by violent released prisoners in the year of Stalin's death, balancing survival thriller with political and moral weight.
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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