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.
Director
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Writer
Jacques Baynac, André Milbet, Vladimir Zazubrin
Cast
Igor Sergeev
Срубов - председатель ГубЧК
Aleksey Poluyan
Jan Pepel
Mikhail Vasserbaum
Isaak Kats
Sergei Isavnin
Semyon Khudonogov
Vasiliy Domrachyov
Yefim Solonin
Aleksandr Medvedev
Ivan Mudynya
Igor Golovin
commandant
Nina Usatova
cleaner
Viktor Khozyainov
Naum Nepomnyaschiy
