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
Original film poster
Directed byAleksandr Proshkin
Written byEdgar Dubrovsky
StarringValeriy Priyomykhov
Anatoli Papanov
Viktor Stepanov
Nina Usatova
Music byVladimir Martynov
CinematographyBoris Brozhovsky
Production
company
Release date
1988
Running time
97 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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. One young emotional teenager kept making a fuss, and the villagers were afraid she'd create problems for the captives. To save the villagers, Basargin and Starobogatov together brought down one bandit and captured his pistol. The two men then gradually pick off the bandits one by one, collecting weapons from each dead bandit. However, of the number of dead bandits, one was only wounded and hid in the nearby bush creating a big problem for the villagers.

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

References
  1. "Дело Румянцева (1955) – КиноПоиск". Retrieved Dec 2, 2020 – via www.kinopoisk.ru.
  2. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/7633/annot/
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