Chekist
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“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.
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Cast
25 people
Igor Sergeev
Andrey Pavlovich Srubov
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Aleksey Poluyan
Jan Pepel
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Mikhail Vasserbaum
Isaak Kats
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commandant
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Aleksandr Rogozhkin Director · Jacques Baynac Writer André Milbet Writer
First release September 15, 1992 · Produced in France, Russia · Production Studio Troitskij Most, Trinity Bridge Studio
Production
Sodaperaga Productions
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Studio Troitskij Most
Production
Trinity Bridge Studio
Production
France · Russia
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Original title
Чекист
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 15, 1992
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Brazil
January 1, 1993 · Theatrical
Canada
September 16, 1992 · Theatrical
Portugal
January 2, 1993 · Theatrical
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