The Cold Summer of 1953(1987)

The movie takes place in a small village in the Russian Far North, where two political prisoners by the names of Kopalych and Luzga are serving their sentences. After the death of Joseph Stalin, the country pardoned over a million criminal prisoners, but many dissidents were not. The village is seized by a gang of recently released criminals. Kopalych and Luzga prove to be the only ones able to resist the criminals.

The movie won the ‘Nika National Film Award’ for ‘Best Feature Film’ in 1989. 

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100 minutes
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