1988-12-03 • 1h 41m

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.

Directors

Aleksandr Proshkin

Writters

Edgar Dubrovsky

Editors

Edgar Dubrovsky, Yelena Mikhaylova