Movie Drama
The face of death
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 Aleksey Poluyan Mikhail Vasserbaum Sergei Isavnin Vasiliy Domrachyov Aleksandr Medvedev Aleksandr Kharashkevich Igor Golovin Nina Usatova Viktor Khozyainov Ivan Shvedoff Vladimir Ermilov Sergey Zamorev Yevgeni Tilicheyev Tatyana Zhuravleva Dmitriy Komov Olga Tarasenko Yuliya Dzherbinova Tatyana Kabanova Vasili Deryagin Lyudmila Bogdanova Viktor Bychkov Sergey Migitsko Sergey Kupriyanov Oksana Bazilevich
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