Chekist
The face of death
1992-09-15 | 91 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Igor SergeevAndrey Pavlovich Srubov
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Aleksey PoluyanJan Pepel
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Mikhail VasserbaumIsaak Kats
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Sergei IsavninSemyon Khudonogov
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Vasiliy DomrachyovYefim Solonin
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Aleksandr MedvedevIvan Mudynya
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Igor Golovincommandant
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Nina Usatovacleaner
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Viktor KhozyainovNaum Nepomnyaschiy
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Ivan Shvedoff
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Vladimir Ermilov
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Sergey Zamorevfamily doctor
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Yevgeni TilicheyevPedestrian in plaid trousers
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Tatyana Zhuravleva
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Dmitriy Komov
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Yuliya Dzherbinova
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Tatyana Kabanova