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Chekist

1992 · 1h 31m · Drama

The face of death

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.

Cast

• Igor Sergeev as Andrey Pavlovich Srubov
• Aleksey Poluyan as Jan Pepel
• Mikhail Vasserbaum as Isaak Kats
• Sergei Isavnin as Semyon Khudonogov
• Vasiliy Domrachyov as Yefim Solonin
• Aleksandr Medvedev as Ivan Mudynya
• Aleksandr Kharashkevich as Aleksey Bozhe
• Igor Golovin as commandant
• Nina Usatova as cleaner
• Viktor Khozyainov as Naum Nepomnyaschiy
• Ivan Shvedoff
• Vladimir Ermilov

Details

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Released

September 15, 1992

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama

Studio

Sodaperaga Productions and Studio Troitskij Most

Status

Released

TMDB score

5.2 / 10 from 24 votes