
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.

as Sergei «Luzga» Basargin

as Nikolai «Kopalych» Starobogatov

as Mankov

as Lidia Matveevna

as Lidia Matveevna's daughter

as Ivan Zotov

as Fadeich

as Vityok

as «Baron»

as Mikhalych

as «Mukha»

as «Kryuk»

as «Shurup»

as Starobogatov's son

as Starobogatov's wife






as (uncredited)