Chekist

It's funny to see Russians/pro-Russians on here getting triggered by a film that makes good ol' mother Russia look bad, claiming that it's somehow 'evil Western propaganda'. The film is A RUSSIAN FILM. Created by Russians, based on a book written by a Russian, and about a Russian tragedy that they themselves created. The reason you're so upset with this, the reason you're so angry, is because a film like this somehow managed to slip through the cracks of the Russian terror machine and expose to the world what the Soviet experiment was all about - the accusing and murder of anyone they didn't like. That's a theme that continues to this day in Russia, if you don't like the government you're either shot or never seen again. Boris Nemtsov, Alexander Litvenenko, Alexei Navalny, anyone. Frankly you should be happy you're reading this outside Russia and being able to comment here freely.

Chekist is one of those Russain flicks that is sought after by collectors but so far it was never available on DVD or VHS in Europe or the States. Of course you can get it in Russia but without English subs. Film Bizzaro has released it on DVD-R only for 50 copies and it was sold within minutes. Is it worth all that, yes it does.

But let me first of all say that this isn't an easy film to watch. It's disturbing in all manners and it's based on real events taking place early 1900 in Russia. The CHEKA were the secret police that Lenin established after the Bolshevik revolution. The reason was very simple, they arrested every body who was against them with a trial taking place in a few minutes. all were send to execution.

And this is exactly what it shows. A few executions in the beginning and then we start to know Srubov (Igor Sergeev) a Cheka having no problem with interviewing (only one minute) the victims and trial them death. He also witnesses the executions and once we see that it is going on for minutes. And it doesn't give the viewer an easy feeling. It surely isn't for the faint-hearted because the way they are executed and the bodies are thrown away gives you shivers. First of all they all had to strip naked before facing 5 doors and getting a bullet in the head. On the other hand one scene isn't also easy to take. A mother comes in the Cheka building searching for Srubov to ask to free her son. While asking she let her daughter strip before him so he can make love to her. You get the picture I guess.

One of those flicks you want to turn off because you can't take it anymore but still you watch it because how is it going to end?

There's a lot of nudity a thing i thought wasn't to be seen in such kind of flick. But be advised, men and women go full frontal but they are executed soon so another not comfortable thing.

If you can catch a copy then you surely must watch it to understand what went on in Russia almost 100 years ago.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 4/5 Effects 0/5 Story 5/5 Comedy 0/5

The above reviews have captured "The Chekist" pretty well. It's all that! But above all, extremely sad. Absolutely pitiful that men like this actually existed and committed the same atrocities as depicted here. Some of the scenes are hair-raising, as these poor people meekly and silently accept their fate and are slaughtered without trial or mercy.

I have not seen the movie in a few years, but it one of the ONES that will always stick with me. I can still hear the echoes of the pistol shots that resound with a horrific "BANG". And of course, the bodies. The treatment these people received is beyond what I can say. This film is almost must see, but I can understand why someone would prefer not to watch it. To watch this classic is to understand that it probably will stay with you for a very long time. And it should.

This is a really well made and honest movie, not some spielberg rubbish to deliberately create guilt by as part of the greater cash cow for a bunch of religeous and racial exceptionalists.

"The Chekist" - the gloomy drama of Aleksandr Rogozhkin. A very bold film of the director, who became famous mainly for comedies, about the most terrible period of red terror in the 20s of the 19th century, which claimed millions of lives who disagreed with the ideas of the Revolution. The color of the nation, the noble intellectuals and patriots of Russia were completely destroyed and turned into mountains of mutilated corpses.