Chekist (1992)
5.4
/10 By 21 Votes
Overview : 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.
Release Date : September 15, 1992
Runtime : 91m
Genre : Drama
Companies : Sodaperaga Productions, Studio Troitskij Most
Countries : France, Russia
Keywords : revolution, basement, bolshevik, secret police
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