The Cold Summer of 1953
The Cold Summer of 1953[1] (Russian: Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего…, romanized: Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego[2]) is a 1988 Soviet crime film directed by Aleksandr Proshkin. It was the last film of the Soviet actor Anatoly Papanov.
| The Cold Summer of 1953 | |
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Proshkin |
| Written by | Edgar Dubrovsky |
| Starring | Valeriy Priyomykhov Anatoli Papanov Viktor Stepanov Nina Usatova |
| Music by | Vladimir Martynov |
| Cinematography | Boris Brozhovsky |
Production company | |
Release date | 1988 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
Summer 1953. After Stalin's death, one of his closest colleagues, First Deputy Premier and head of the MVD Lavrenty Beria, announces an amnesty for non-political prisoners and for political prisoners sentenced to not more than 5 years. As a result, many dangerous criminals are freed from labor camps. They organise gangs and begin to rob, kill and rape.
In a small village in the north of Russia live two exiles: former military intelligence captain Sergei Basargin and former engineer Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov. Both have been unjustly exiled by Stalin's regime.
The village is attacked by a gang of criminals. The bandits kill the only policeman and take the entire population hostage. To save them, the former military officer and the former engineer take up arms.
Cast
- Valeriy Priyomykhov as Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain
- Anatoli Papanov as Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer
- Viktor Stepanov as policeman Mankov, who killed by bandits
- Nina Usatova as Lydia Matveevna, mute woman
- Zoya Buryak as Lydia Matveevna's daughter
- Yury Kuznetsov as Ivan Zotov, director of trading post
- Vladimir Kashpur as Fadeich, chief of landing place
- Elizabeth Solodova as Nikolai Starobogatov's wife
- Boris Plotnikov as Nikolai Starobogatov's son
- Vladimir Golovin as professional criminal, gang leader
- Sergey Vlasov as Witek, criminal
- Andrew Dudarenko as Mikhalich, criminal
- Alexander Zavyalov as Mukha, criminal
- Alexey Kolesnik as Hook, criminal
- Viktor Kosykh as Baklan, criminal