The chekist
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The chekist |
| Original title | Чекист Le tchékiste |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian French |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Rogoshkin |
| script |
Jacques Baynac André Milbet |
| music | Dimitri Pavlov |
| camera | Valery Mulgaut |
| cut | Tamara Denisova |
| occupation | |
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The Chekist is a Russian drama film directed by Alexander Rogoschkin from 1992.
action
Andrei Srubov is a leading officer in the newly created Cheka in revolutionary Russia after 1917. With the new organization, he spreads fear and terror among the population of an unspecified small Russian town. In the search for real or supposed dissenters - aristocrats, Christian dignitaries, Jews, intellectuals and others - men, women and children are arrested almost indiscriminately, interrogated, tried and finally shot within a very short time. Srubow is shown as a detached and cold but thoughtful character. He is avoided by former friends and his family turns away from him. Over this he gradually loses his mind.
Large parts of the film take place in the basement of the Cheka's headquarters, where the humiliating, assembly line-like executions are shown, as well as the very different ways the victims of the purges deal with their fate and the way they deal with the naked corpses, which, like cattle, pull over pulleys from the basement of the building can be brought to the transporting trucks.
background
The Chekist was the first film made in the Soviet Union that dealt in this ruthless, almost documentary way with the crimes of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. That is why it was recorded as a sensation at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1992, but without having received an award. In Germany the film is only available in one cut, 55 minutes long.
Web links
- The Chekist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film with German subtitles