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Chekist

19925.2 / 1091 min
Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Igor Sergeev

Igor Sergeev

Срубов - председатель ГубЧК

Aleksey Poluyan

Aleksey Poluyan

Jan Pepel

Mikhail Vasserbaum

Mikhail Vasserbaum

Isaak Kats

Sergei Isavnin

Sergei Isavnin

Semyon Khudonogov

Vasiliy Domrachyov

Vasiliy Domrachyov

Yefim Solonin

Aleksandr Medvedev

Aleksandr Medvedev

Ivan Mudynya

Aleksandr Kharashkevich

Aleksandr Kharashkevich

Aleksey Bozhe

Igor Golovin

Igor Golovin

commandant

Nina Usatova

Nina Usatova

cleaner

Viktor Khozyainov

Viktor Khozyainov

Naum Nepomnyaschiy

Ivan Shvedoff

Ivan Shvedoff

Vladimir Ermilov

Vladimir Ermilov

Sergey Zamorev

Sergey Zamorev

family doctor

Yevgeni Tilicheyev

Yevgeni Tilicheyev

Pedestrian in plaid trousers

Tatyana Zhuravleva

Tatyana Zhuravleva

Dmitriy Komov

Dmitriy Komov

Olga Tarasenko

Olga Tarasenko

Yuliya Dzherbinova

Yuliya Dzherbinova

Tatyana Kabanova

Tatyana Kabanova

Vasili Deryagin

Vasili Deryagin

Lyudmila Bogdanova

Lyudmila Bogdanova

Viktor Bychkov

Viktor Bychkov

Ivanov

Sergey Migitsko

Sergey Migitsko

captain Klimenko's relative

Sergey Kupriyanov

Sergey Kupriyanov

Oksana Bazilevich

Oksana Bazilevich

Srubov's wife

Crew

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Director

Tamara Frid

Tamara Frid

Makeup Artist

Stanislav Okhapkin

Stanislav Okhapkin

Additional Director of Photography

Anatoly Taborov

Anatoly Taborov

Additional Director of Photography

Dmitri Pavlov

Dmitri Pavlov

Music

Valeri Myulgaut

Valeri Myulgaut

Director of Photography

Tamara Denisova

Tamara Denisova

Editor

Vladimir Zazubrin

Vladimir Zazubrin

Writer

Jacques Baynac

Jacques Baynac

Writer

André Milbet

André Milbet

Writer