Chekist

Story

Synopsis

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

Writers

Jacques Baynac, Vladimir Zazubrin, André Milbet

Language

Russian

Country

France, Russia

Release date

15 September 1992

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Igor Sergeev

  Andrey Pavlovich Srubov

• 

  Aleksey Poluyan

  Jan Pepel

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  Mikhail Vasserbaum

  Isaak Kats

• 

  Sergei Isavnin

  Semyon Khudonogov

• 

  Vasiliy Domrachyov

  Yefim Solonin

• 

  Aleksandr Medvedev

  Ivan Mudynya

• Aleksandr Kharashkevich

  Aleksey Bozhe

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  Igor Golovin

  commandant

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  Nina Usatova

  cleaner

• 

  Viktor Khozyainov

  Naum Nepomnyaschiy

• 

  Ivan Shvedoff

• 

  Vladimir Ermilov