
"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.
Andrey Pavlovich Srubov

Jan Pepel

Isaak Kats

Semyon Khudonogov

Yefim Solonin

Ivan Mudynya

Aleksey Bozhe
commandant

cleaner

Naum Nepomnyaschiy

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family doctor

Pedestrian in plaid trousers

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Ivanov

captain Klimenko's relative

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Srubov's wife
