The cinema club “Cinema as a historical source” once again brought together fans of feature films within the walls of S. Toraighyrov PSU.

This time the audience watched the film by director Alexander Proshkin "The cold summer of ‘53 ..." (1987).

The choice of the film was timed to coincide with the memorable date - the 95th anniversary of the People's Artist laureate of state prize of the USSR, Anatoly Papanov (1922-1987), who took the main role in the film. This film work became the last in the life of Anatoly Dmitrievich.

The film is dedicated to victims of the totalitarian regime, accused of spying, called “enemy of the people”. It reflects the life of people with unbroken spirit, overcome all humiliations and pains, able to withstand in any circumstances.

According to the chairman of the cinema club Aslan Azerbayev, the film represents a significant work of Soviet cinema, still provoking the interest of historians.

“The fact that such film appears on the screens is a manifestation of perestroika glasnost, which made it possible to state the problems about which it was common to be silent because of ideological and opportunistic prohibitions. During the years of perestroika that definitions such as "totalitarianism", "Stalinism", the command and administrative system, the "Gulag" etc. were first revealed openly”, Aslan Dybysbekovich said.

As the audience noted, the film is tragic and it is not entertaining at all, but everyone must see it.

Feeling the atmosphere of the postwar period, seeing the manners of people, the harmfulness of unthinking decisions of a national level, inhumanity of totalitarianism, the audience came to the conclusion that the main lesson of this picture is, in whatever life situation you find yourself, it is necessary to stay a human.