The Chekist (1992)

The Chekist (Russian: Чекист) is a 1992 Russian-French historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, based on true stories. It is about the Jewish lead and dominated Soviet Cheka, and mass executions of white Christian Russians. It exposes the mentality and nature of the people involved and those in charge.

Plot: Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin (himself of Jewish origin) established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, and try them in seconds. They execute priests, intellectuals, aristocrats, devout Christians, 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 Judeo-Bolshevik 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.

The film was adapted by Jacques Baynac from Vladimir Zazubrin's short story "Щепка" (known variably in English as "Sliver", "The Splinter", or "The Chip"), which was written in 1923 but has remained unpublished until the Glasnost era in 1989 when it was printed in the journal Sibirskie Ogni. Zazubrin, a former Bolshevik infiltrator of the Okhrana and veteran of both sides of the Civil War, who himself fell victim to the Great Purge and was arrested and executed in 1937.

Truth and exposure are the greatest fear and threat to Jews. So, due to pressure from Jewish groups, the film was not able to secure a distribution deal in the West.