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.
Unfortunately the movie The Cold Summer of 1953 is not yet available on Disney Plus.
| Directing | Aleksandr Proshkin | Director |
| Writing | Edgar Dubrovsky | Writer |
| Camera | Boris Brozhovsky | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Yelena Mikhaylova | Editor |
| Art | Valeri Filippov | Art Direction |
| Sound | Vladimir Martynov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Александр Цыганков | Sound Director |
| Camera | Anatoliy Dzhirkvelov | Additional Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksey Tetyurkin | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natalya Alexandrova | Costume Design |
| Directing | Irina Krastilevskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | O. Evplanova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Lyudmila Serganova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | P. Sudilin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Production | Konstantin Stenkin | Executive Producer |