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.
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Valeriy Priyomykhov
«Luzga», Sergey Basargin, former military intelligence captain
Anatoli Papanov
«Kopalych», Nikolai Pavlovich Starobogatov, former engineer
Viktor Stepanov
policeman Mankov
Nina Usatova
Lydia Matveevna
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