THE CHEKIST
Symposium
Russia, just after the revolution. It takes mere seconds to condemn an individual to death. Andrey Srubov, director of the newly founded secret police unit in a provincial Russian city, has them all shot – clerics, women, the bourgeoisie. Slaughtered like animals, but the real animals are the others, those who pull the trigger and dispose of the corpses. Srubov tries to justify the executions philosophically, only to gradually lose his mind in the process. THE CHEKIST was the first Perestroika film to treat Bolshevik crimes. Unflinching, cold, with an almost documentary-like feel.
CHEKIST / DER TSCHEKIST
RUS, FRA 1992 / 90 min
Language: Russian, French
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
- Screenplay: Jacques Baynac, André Milbet
- Cinematographer: Valery Myulgaut
- Music: Dmitry Pavlov
- Sound: Nikolay Astakhov
- Cast: Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin, Nina Usatova
- Producer: Oleg Konkov, Guy Séligmann
- Production Company: Sodaperaga, La Sept Cinema, Troitskiy Most
- World Sales: Métis Films
Russia, just after the revolution. It takes mere seconds to condemn an individual to death. Andrey Srubov, director of the newly founded secret police unit in a provincial Russian city, has them all shot – clerics, women, the bourgeoisie. Slaughtered like animals, but the real animals are the others, those who pull the trigger and dispose of the corpses. Srubov tries to justify the executions philosophically, only to gradually lose his mind in the process. THE CHEKIST was the first Perestroika film to treat Bolshevik crimes. Unflinching, cold, with an almost documentary-like feel.
- Screenplay: Jacques Baynac, André Milbet
- Cinematographer: Valery Myulgaut
- Music: Dmitry Pavlov
- Sound: Nikolay Astakhov
- Cast: Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin, Nina Usatova
- Producer: Oleg Konkov, Guy Séligmann
- Production Company: Sodaperaga, La Sept Cinema, Troitskiy Most
- World Sales: Métis Films