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
