Chekist
Chekist
Chekist is a 1992 France, Russia Drama It stars Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: France, Russia
- Cast: Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin, Vasiliy Domrachyov, Aleksandr Medvedev, Aleksandr Kharashkevich, Igor Golovin, Nina Usatova, Viktor Khozyainov, Ivan Shvedoff, Vladimir Ermilov, Sergey Zamorev, Yevgeni Tilicheyev, Tatyana Zhuravleva
