
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.

as Andrey Pavlovich Srubov

as Jan Pepel

as Isaak Kats

as Semyon Khudonogov

as Yefim Solonin

as Ivan Mudynya

as Aleksey Bozhe

as commandant

as cleaner

as Naum Nepomnyaschiy



as family doctor

as Pedestrian in plaid trousers








as Ivanov

as captain Klimenko's relative


as Srubov's wife