Chekist

The face of death

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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

Игорь Сергеев actor

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Aleksey Poluyan actor

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Mikhail Vasserbaum actor

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Sergei Isavnin actor

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Vasiliy Domrachyov actor Aleksandr Medvedev actor

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Aleksandr Kharashkevich actor Игорь Головин actor Нина Усатова actor

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Viktor Khozyainov actor Ivan Shvedoff actor

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Vladimir Ermilov actor

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Sergey Zamorev actor

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Yevgeni Tilicheyev actor

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Tatyana Zhuravleva actor

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Dmitriy Komov actor

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Olga Tarasenko actor

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Yuliya Dzherbinova actor

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Tatyana Kabanova actor

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Vasili Deryagin actor