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)
