Chekist

Overview

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.

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

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

Nina Usatova

cleaner

Viktor Khozyainov

Naum Nepomnyaschiy