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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- Released
- Production
- Mosfilm
Keywords
- summer
- gulag
- 1950s
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Top Cast
Valeriy Priyomykhov as Sergei «Luzga» Basargin
Anatoliy Papanov as Nikolai «Kopalych» Starobogatov
Viktor Stepanov as Mankov
Nina Usatova as Lidia Matveevna
Zoya Buryak as Lidia Matveevna's daughter
Yuriy Kuznetsov as Ivan Zotov
Vladimir Kashpur as Fadeich
Sergey Vlasov as Vityok
Top Crew
Aleksandr Proshkin · Director
Edgar Dubrovsky · Writer
Vladimir Martynov · Composer
Boris Brozhovsky · Cinematographer
Yelena Mikhaylova · Editor
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