The Chekist (1992) Film

This is the difficult to find masterpiece directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, based on a 1923 short story by Vladimir Zazubrin. The bloody and merciless face of the Red Terror which swept the Russian revolution from 1918-21 is graphically depicted. This film is not recommended for anyone under the age of 16. Russian with English subtitles.

SYNOPSIS - Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest then interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, then execute all intellectuals, aristocrats, Christians, anti-Communists as well as their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. There is no one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies.

Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, and the loading of bodies onto wagons takes place. 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 insane.
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