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.

Igor Sergeev
Andrey Pavlovich Srubov

Aleksey Poluyan
Jan Pepel

Mikhail Vasserbaum
Isaak Kats

Sergei Isavnin
Semyon Khudonogov

Vasiliy Domrachyov
Yefim Solonin

Aleksandr Medvedev
Ivan Mudynya
Aleksandr Kharashkevich
Aleksey Bozhe

Igor Golovin
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September 15, 1992
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
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