Chekist

Russia

1992

93 Min

Color

Russian, French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Jacques Baynac, André Milbet

CAST Igor Sergeev, Aleksei Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin, Vasili Domrachyov

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. —IMDb

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Alexander Rogozhkin graduated from Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) State University’s History Department as an art expert and art researcher. In 1971, he began to work as an art designer at Leningrad TV; from 1974 – 1977, here he served as a production designer at “LenFilm” Film Studio, while studying painting and graphics at the Leningrad Pedagogic Institute. In 1982, Rogozhkin graduated from VGIK (Russian State Institute for Cinematography), having completed a director’s workshop with Sergei Gerasimov. Rogozhkin’s filmography includes the comedy “Peculiarities of National Hunt” (1995) and its sequel “Peculiarities of National Fishing” (1998), both certified Russian blockbusters; “Peculiarities of National Hunt” was at the top of the national box-office for several years. In 1998, the film “Checkpoint” proved Rogozhkin’s skill as a master of Russian psychological cinema. In addition to having directed several episodes of the popular Russian TV police serial, “Streets of Broken Lights”… read more