The Cold Summer of 1953

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.

• Aleksandr ProshkinDirector
• Edgar DubrovskyWriter
• Vladimir MartynovOriginal Music Composer

• Valeriy PriyomykhovSergei «Luzga» Basargin
• Anatoliy PapanovNikolai «Kopalych» Starobogatov
• Viktor StepanovMankov
• Nina UsatovaLidia Matveevna
• Zoya BuryakLidia Matveevna's daughter
• Yuriy KuznetsovIvan Zotov
• Vladimir KashpurFadeich
• Sergey VlasovVityok
• Vladimir Golovin«Baron»
• Andrey DudarenkoMikhalych
• Aleksandr Zavyalov«Mukha»
• Aleksei Kolesnik«Kryuk»