The Cold Summer of 1953 (Russian: Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего…, romanized: Kholodnoe leto pyat'desyat tret'ego) is a 1988 Soviet crime thriller Film directed by Aleksandr Proshkin.

Upon release they quickly began to form gangs, committing robberies, murders, and rapes nationwide: Many places in the USSR were subject to rampant criminality and looting at the hands of now fully-pardoned inmates.

After the first shots are fired and Mankov is dead, the bandits plan springs into action, and they quickly force the villagers into a barn, locking the door and shutting in everyone except for Lydia, who they force to cook them a meal, Luzga and Kopalych, who they make dig a grave for Mankov, Fadeich, who they've decided to kill, and Zotov, who they keep as "one of them".

No matter how hard he tries, he doesn't succeed, and furiously storms back to the rest of his gang, taking out his frustrations on Lydia.

During a quiet moment after this, Lydia goes back to the barn where her daughter is, unlocking the door and telling her to escape into the nearby woods.

In a tragic twist of fate, the leader of the bandits survived being shot, playing dead for hours on end only to shoot and kill Shura.

After dodging his remaining shots, Luzga chases after the man, threatening to beat him to death with his bare hands.