Chekist
The face of death
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
91 min
Release Date
1992-09-15
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Vote Count
22
Vote Average
5.2
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
Sergey Zamorev
family doctor
Yevgeni Tilicheyev
Pedestrian in plaid trousers
Tatyana Zhuravleva
Dmitriy Komov
Olga Tarasenko
Yuliya Dzherbinova
Tatyana Kabanova
Vasili Deryagin
Lyudmila Bogdanova
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Ivanov
Sergey Migitsko
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Sergey Kupriyanov
Oksana Bazilevich
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