Chekist

The face of death

Chekist — Plot

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

• Release date
• September 15, 1992
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Chekist — Cast

Igor Sergeev Andrey Pavlovich Srubov Aleksey Poluyan Jan Pepel Mikhail Vasserbaum Isaak Kats Sergei Isavnin Semyon Khudonogov Vasiliy Domrachyov Yefim Solonin Aleksandr Medvedev Ivan Mudynya

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Aleksandr Kharashkevich Aleksey Bozhe Igor Golovin commandant