The Chekist (Aleksandr Rogozhkin drama) (subtitles)
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$14.99
- SKU: 61838
- Availability: In Stock
- Subtitles: English
- Languages: Russian
- Format: Color
- Soundformat: Dolby Digital
- Genre(s): Drama
- Year of release: 2018 (1992)
- Recording length: 89 min.
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, Christians,
anti-Comunists, 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.