Chekist

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.

5.1

91 min

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

Sergey Zamorev

as family doctor

Yevgeni Tilicheyev

as Pedestrian in plaid trousers

Tatyana Zhuravleva

Dmitriy Komov

Olga Tarasenko

Yuliya Dzherbinova

Tatyana Kabanova

Vasili Deryagin

Lyudmila Bogdanova

Viktor Bychkov

as Ivanov

Sergey Migitsko

as captain Klimenko's relative

Sergey Kupriyanov

Oksana Bazilevich

as Srubov's wife

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin