Chekist

Chekist

The face of death

1992 · 91 min · ★ 5.2 · Drama

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin · Written by Jacques Baynac

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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
Aleksandr Kharashkevich Aleksey Bozhe
Igor Golovin commandant
Nina Usatova cleaner
Viktor Khozyainov Naum Nepomnyaschiy
Ivan Shvedoff
Vladimir Ermilov

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