The Chekist
Chekist
1992, Film, 93 min, Drama, Horror, Russian, Russia, MoviePedia score 61
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.
Directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast
- Igor Sergeev as Andrey Srubov
- Aleksey Poluyan as Pepel
- Mikhail Vasserbaum as Isaac Katz
- Sergei Isavnin as Khudonogov
- Vasiliy Domrachyov as Solomin
- Aleksandr Medvedev as Mudynya
- Aleksandr Kharashkevich as Boje
- Igor Golovin as The Commandant
- Nina Usatova as The Sweeper
- Viktor Khozyainov
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