The Cold Summer of 1953
1988, Russian. Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin.
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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- Unknown
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Aleksandr ProshkinDirector
- 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»
Details
- Released
- 6 January 1988
- Original title
- Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Edgar Dubrovsky
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The Cold Summer of 1953 isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free online. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Cold Summer of 1953?
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) was directed by Aleksandr Proshkin and stars Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov.